• m10-cor-117-10
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Middle Corinthian Alabastron Fragments

Dönem
ca. 595-570 BC, Lidya
Sardeis veya Müze Env. No.
P61.521
Malzeme
Pişmiş toprak
Eserin Türü
Seramik
Seramiğin Şekli
Alabastron
Seramik Mal Grubu
Orta Korint
Pottery Attribution
Yerleşim
Sardis
Alan (Sektör)
PN
Açma
PN
Koordinatlar
W250 / S380 ca *86.52
Tanım

Probably early in MC. Three large body fragments, joined. Dolphin to right, preserved from behind the head to the snout. Two concentric circles are used for the eye. Two large arcs appear behind the eye. An incised triangle, which may represent a flipper, meets the second arc. A long curved incision creates both the forehead and the division of the snout. A circular area beneath the dolphin may have been a blob rosette. The incision is firm and competent. The added red, which is preserved on the lower part of the sherd, may have been a series of lines. Glaze: almost entirely lost. Clay: soft, smooth, and very powdery. Almost white. Munsell no. 10 YR between 8/2 (white) and 8/3 (very pale brown).

The dolphin type agrees with others of Corinthian manufacture, especially in the use of two concentric circles for the eye, two concentric arcs on the head, and a triangular flipper (?). However, almost all Corinthian dolphins also have a small, dependent lower "fin" -- which is lacking in this example --and a forehead that is either more square or curves smoothly into the snout. The clay is paler and more powdery than other Corinthian examples found at Sardis, but see Cor 114, Cor 118 and Cor 127. Found at the same coordinates as Cor 118, but on a slightly different level.

Dolphins on East Greek pottery also lack lower "fins" and have foreheads shaped like that on the example from Sardis. There are, however, no other similarities between these dolphins and East Greek types.

Boyutlar
P.H. 0.061; P.W. 0.073; Th. 0.006
Yorum
Cf. for a similar dolphin, see: CVA Italy 35, Taranto 3, III.C., pl. 3, no. 1 (inv. no. 20734), on an amphoriskos dated to MC. Mansfield, "Three Corinthian Fragments," gives the following comparanda for the dolphin: F. G. Lo Porto, "Ceramica arcaica della necropoli di Taranto," ASAtene n.s. 21--22 (1959--1960) 125, fig. 99b, no. 4876, an amphoriskos dated late in MC; R. E. Carter "A Terracotta Dedication at Corinth," Hesperia 22 (1953) pl. 65:5, on the handle-plate of a MC krater; Pottier, Louvre pl. 15 (inv. A444), confronted dolphins on a round aryballos of LC date. He also cites an East Greek example from Samos: Samos VI:1, 127, no. 335a, pl. 40. See also: E. Bielefeld, "Die Antiken-Sammlung des Archaeologischen Instituts der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg," Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Gesellschafts- und sprachwissenschaftliche Reihe, vol. 2, pt. 3 (1952/53) pl. VII, fig. 1 (K.-N. 47), a Corinthian aryballos found in Athens, dated early 6th C. Bielefeld mentions Lakonian examples, as in Lane, "Lakonian," pls. 30, 41. Corinth XVIII:1, no. 205, pl. 22, a dolphin on a krater dated MC.
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