Corinthian Transitional Aryballos Fragments
- Date
- Ca. 630-590 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P96.026
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Corinthian Transitional
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W12.5 - W15 / S110 - S115 *98.71 - 98.55
- Findspot
- floor; top of gravel; found in 1965
- Description
Late in TR or early in EC. A portion of the body of an aryballos. There is a band of glaze at the top of the fragment followed by three lines of false checkerboard pattern, two thin lines of glaze, then two bands of glaze with traces of added red. Carelessly executed. Glaze: dark brown to reddish orange. Clay: fine, smooth, and slightly powdery. Beige. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).
The false checkerboard, created by a series of thin lines and rows of dabs between, is fairly common during this period. Another example, surely by the same hand, was found nearby (Cor 69). Another small rim fragment (uninv. HoB 2/vii/65) was found at W 10.00--15.00/S 110.00--115.00 *99.00--*98.00. A band of glaze at the top is followed by two lines and then a more careful rendering of the checkerboard pattern than occurs in Cor 69 and Cor 70. Glaze: mostly lost. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4. Date: TR/EC.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.026; P.W. 0.037; Th. 0.004
- Comments
- Cf. Anderson, “Old Smyrna” 145, pl. 24, no. 92.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS