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Early Corinthian Aryballos Fragment

Date
Ca. 620-590 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P96.032
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Aryballos
Pottery Ware
Early Corinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
W15 - W20 / S110 - S115 *98.6 - 98.4
Findspot
found in 1966
Description

Early in EC. Small wall fragment. Bird flying to left with outstretched wings. Two parallel lines are used for the wing bars as well as for the separation between the tail and the body. A series of parallel lines marks both wing and tail feathers. There is added red on the wing and tail. The incision is fine and fairly steady for so small a piece. Glaze: black, glossy, and worn. Clay: hard, smooth, and fine. Fired to different colors on the exterior and interior, giving the appearance of two layers of clay. Greenish yellow on the exterior, Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown); orange-buff on the interior, Munsell no. 7.5 YR 7/4 (pink).

Found in the same area and at nearly the same level as one piece of Cor 69, which dates late in TR or early in EC. Another small wall fragment of uncertain shape (P62.344:4662), showing a delicately drawn bird's wing with added red on the bar, was found at PN, in Test Pit "X" in "Lydian B" at *86.30, and dates late in TR or early in EC.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.024; P.W. 0.027; Th. 0.003
Comments
Cf. Benson, “Notes” 223, pl. 70, figs. 14, 15, for a TR example with finer incision.
See Also
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Author
JS