• m10-cor-89-10
    Profile view of mouth and neck. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-89-20
    Top view of mouth. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Early Corinthian Alabastron Fragment

Date
Ca. 620-590 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P61.225
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Alabastron
Pottery Ware
Early Corinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
W10 - W15 / S100 - S105 *99.6 - 99.0
Description

A portion of the mouth and neck. The disk slants downward toward the opening of the mouth. The thin, sharp profile of the rim has a slight overhang. Tongues of even thickness radiate from the mouth. A row of closely spaced dots appears on the rim. On the neck is another series of tongues, rippling over the bumpy contour. Glaze: black to brown, crackled, and worn. Clay: hard, smooth, and fine. Yellow-buff. The closest Munsell no. is 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).

Found near the alabastron with a rooster (Cor 88) and may belong with it.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.021; diam. of mouth 0.03; Th. 0.004
Comments
Cf. Ephesos XII:1, 27, K58, K59, pl. 14, dated EC.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
JS