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Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Fragment of an Early Corinthian Football (Gourd) Aryballos
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 96
- Date
- Ca. 620-590 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P87.106
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Football (Gourd) Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Early Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- ByzFort
- Trench
- ByzFort 87.NE
- Locus
- ByzFort 87.NE Locus 12
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E684 - E689 / S328 - S333 ca *182.4
- Description
Wall fragment. The sherd has been burned. Three pair of parallel incisions are preserved. Glaze: black, somewhat worn and crackled. No added color remains in the sections. Clay: fine and hard, gray in hue. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/1 (light gray).
Two other football (gourd) aryballoi that were found at HoB are decorated with single rather than double incisions (Cor 94, Cor 95).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.035; P.W. 0.024; Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- Cf. Ephesos XII:1, 38, aryballoi K121 23, pl. 21, dated EC; CVA USA 5, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley 1, III.C. 16, pl. 5, no. 11 (aryballos 8/3367).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: Ratté, 234, 142a:c and 142b:c.
- Author
- JS