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Overview of body sherd with scale pattern. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Fragment of a Corinthian Transitional Alabastron
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 66
- Date
- Ca. 630-615 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P96.025
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Alabastron
- Pottery Ware
- Corinthian Transitional
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W5 - W9 / S110 - S113 *98.8
- Findspot
- found in 1965
- Description
Probably TR. Wall fragment. A scale pattern covers the entire fragment. Portions of six registers remain. The pattern alternates rows of black-glaze scales and rows of scales with added red. All of the scales have narrow borders created by two parallel incisions. The compass has been misapplied so that the ends of the arcs either overlap or begin lower than they should. Glaze: almost entirely vanished. Clay: fine and hard. Creamy buff. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).
Found in a layer of flood gravel with several rims from East Greek bird bowls, including P65.25:6615.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.029; P.W. 0.028; Th. 0.004
- Comments
- Cf. CVA France 9, Louvre 6, Inv. MNB 628, pl. 4, nos. 15--17, alabastron with animal frieze. Perachora II, 81, pl. 31, no. 719; also Ephesos XII:1, 20, K24, pl. 8 (alabastron), dated as "probably TR."
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS