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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

Date
Ca. 620-590 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P67.140
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Football (Gourd) Aryballos
Pottery Ware
Early Corinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
B-Grid Coordinates
W267 - W272 / S327 - S329 ca. *86.4
Description

Probably EC. Wall fragment. On the shoulder are two bands of black glaze; on the body, solid black glaze with a series of parallel incisions. The lines are straight but unevenly spaced. The ends of the vertical incisions cross up into the shoulder. Traces of added red appear on the second section from the right; traces of yellow on the second section from the left. Glaze: black, semi-glossy, and worn in places. Clay: hard, smooth, and fine. Fired to different colors on the exterior and interior, giving the appearance of two layers of clay: exterior, yellow-buff (Munsell no. 10 YR 8/4, very pale brown); interior, orange-buff (7.5 YR 7/4, pink).

Another aryballos fragment (P89.51:9691) with similar incisions, but with the glaze lost, was found at MMS/S-B E 109.20--111.00/S 137.00--138.00 *110.35 (AASOR 51 [1993] 23, where it is listed as a "Late [?] Corinthian aryballos of 'subgeometric style'").

Dimensions
P.H. 0.038; P.W. 0.034; Th. 0.004
Comments
Cf. Ephesos XII:1, 38, K121 (with lit.) and K122, dated EC. Supra, "Clay," 17 and n. 107.
See Also
Bibliography
Published: BASOR 191 (1968) 13, where it is misidentified as P67.140.7878.
Author
JS