• m10-cor-70-10
    Cor 70 is on right; body fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

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