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Early Corinthian Alabastron (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Profile view of base. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Early Corinthian Alabastron Base Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 80
- Date
- Ca. 620-6590 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.573
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Alabastron
- Pottery Ware
- Early Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W17 - W20 / S105 *99.3 - 99
- Description
Early in EC. The base of a small alabastron. Feline to right, with only his four paws preserved. Parallel curved incisions appear on the paws, straight lines in the legs. A small incised rosette is placed between the front and hind legs of the feline. On the bottom of the alabastron is an exaggerated pinwheel rosette with a large blob on the end of each of the nine spokes. Glaze: black and glossy. Clay: slightly powdery, smooth, and fine. Orange buff. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).
Not far from the work of the Dolphin Painter. D. A. Amyx (private correspondence, 29 January 1986) concurs, considering it "very close to the Dolphin Painter (his own work?)" and notes especially the peculiar pinwheel rosette beneath the vase.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.015; diam. 0.035; Th. 0.003
- Comments
- Cf. CVA France 14, Louvre 9, III.C.a., pl. 30, nos. 8, 9 (Fr. 596); Payne, NC nos. 76, 80, pl. 15:9 and 11; nos. 228, 230, pl. 17:1--3. For an example by the Dolphin Painter, K. Herbert, Ancient Art in Bowdoin College (Cambridge, Mass. 1964) 55, no. 135, pl. 19, an EC alabastron.
- See Also
- See also: R8, No. HoB 641
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS