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Cor 94 (base fragment) is on the left, Cor 95 (shoulder fragment) is on the right. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Fragments of an Early Corinthian Football (Gourd) Aryballos
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 94
- Date
- Ca. 620-590 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P96.035
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Football (Gourd) Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Early Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W10 - W13 / S105 - S107 *99.3 - 99
- Findspot
- found in 1963
- Description
Base fragment. Single incisions mark the eight remaining segments. Added red and white alternate with black glaze as follows: black, red, black, white, black, red, black, white. The incision is quick and careless. Glaze: black and glossy. Clay: hard, fine, and smooth. Yellow-gray in hue. Munsell no. between 10 YR 7/2 (light gray) and 2.5 YR 7/2 (light gray).
Football (gourd) aryballoi are common in EC (see Cor 95--Cor 97). An aryballos in Denmark has similar yellow-gray clay with added red and white in the incised sections (see below).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.023; P.W. 0.05; Th. 0.005
- Comments
- On the football (or gourd) aryballos in general, see Payne, NC 291, who named the type; and Neeft, Aryballoi 275--76. In CVA USA 5, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley 1, III.C., under 16, no. 11 (aryballos 8/3367), Smith comments that both the incisions and the added color resemble that of a gourd, as represented on the gourd bottles of Peruvian pottery, more than a football (see also, supra, "Shapes---Aryballoi and Alabastra," 7 and n. 27). Cf. CVA Denmark 2, Musée National 2, III.C., pl. 83, no. 6 (inv. no. 7772; clay and added color); Ephesos XII:1, 38--39, K125 and K127, pl. 21, dated EC; CVA Great Britain 9, Oxford 2, III.C., pl. 2 (G.B. 385) = Payne, NC no. 638.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS