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HoB 641: Early Corinthian alabastron. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Early Corinthian alabastron
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.573
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Alabastron
- Pottery Ware
- Corinthian, Early Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W17 - W20 / S105 *99.3 - 99
- Findspot
- W17-20 / S105 *99.30-99.0 ⁓ over the second floor of Building D, near the hearth in the southwest corner of the room
- Description
- Early Corinthian, rounded bottom fragment of alabastron. Black over clay surface. Feline to right (paws preserved), incision on paws; filling ornament (incised rosette) between front and hind paws; bottom, pinwheel rosette with large spots at the ends.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.015, Diam. of bottom 0.026, Th. 0.003–0.005.
- Comments
- See Also
- See also: M10 Cat. Cor 80.
- Bibliography
- Sardis M10, Cat. Cor. 80.
- Author
- GGD