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Profile view of mouth and neck. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Top view of mouth. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Early Corinthian Alabastron Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 89
- 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