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Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Corinthian Transitional Skyphos Fragments
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 71
- Date
- Ca. 630-590 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P96.027
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- Corinthian Transitional
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - Central Area
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E5 - W10 / S90 - S108 *97.5
- Findspot
- probably intrusive; found in 1966
- Description
- Late in TR or early in EC. Two fragments from the rim to mid-body, joined. Exterior: three horizontal lines near the rim. Five vertical bars and eight dabs remain in the handle zone. Both the body and the interior are glazed. Glaze: exterior, worn away in the handle zone, but black immediately below and dark brown on the body; interior, chocolate brown. Clay: fine, smooth, and slightly powdery. Yellow-buff. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown). Cups of this type with glaze covering the body and even the foot begin to be produced in LPC but continue into EC (supra, "Kotylai with Linear Decoration," 14; introduction to "Late Protocorinthian," 27; introduction to "Transitional," 33). The skyphos is an unusual shape among the Corinthian finds at Sardis. The only other skyphos fragment, Cor 72, was found not far from this example, but on a different level, and belongs to a different vessel. The glaze on both pieces is badly worn.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.06; P.W. 0.055
- Comments
- Cf. Weinberg, “PC Geometric” 40, fig. 24, found in an EC context.
- See Also
- See also: R8, No. HoB 350
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS