Corinthian Transitional Linear Skyphos Fragment

Date
Ca. 630-590 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P96.028
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Skyphos
Pottery Ware
Corinthian Transitional
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building B
B-Grid Coordinates
W2 - W7 / S95 - S100 *99 - 98.8
Findspot
probably intrusive; found in 1965
Description

Late in TR or early in EC. A small fragment from the rim. Exterior: two horizontal lines near the rim. Nine vertical lines remain in the handle zone and three horizontal lines on the upper body. Interior glazed. Glaze: exterior, badly worn; interior, dark brown. Clay: smooth and hard. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).

One of two Corinthian skyphos fragments found at Sardis (see Cor 71). The badly worn glaze and small size suggest that the fragment was not found in its proper context (supra, "Stratigraphy," 5 and n. 16).

Dimensions
P.H. 0.02; P.W. 0.031; Th. 0.002
Comments
Cf. Weinberg, “PC Geometric” 40, fig. 24, from Corinth, found in an EC context.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
JS