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    Overview of fragments. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Early Corinthian Alabastron Fragments

Date
Ca. 620-590 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P96.033
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Alabastron
Pottery Ware
Early Corinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
W2 - W10 / S117 - S123 *100.2 - 99.8
Findspot
found in 1963
Description

Probably EC. Two large fragments from the shoulder to the base, but not joining. Portion of a large bird preserved from the neck to the wing. Incisions for the wing bar. A series of hasty, parallel incisions for the feathers. Purple-red added on the wing bar. In the field, large incised rosettes with rounded petals. The incision is fine but sometimes careless. Glaze: black to orange and glossy. Clay: hard and fine. Pinkish buff in hue with a creamy exterior. Munsell nos.: body, 7.5 YR 7/4 (pink); exterior, 2.5 YR 7/4 (pale yellow).

Another fragment (uninv. HoB 8/viii/63) from the base of an alabastron showing the end of a bird's wing was found at HoB W 5.00--7.00/S 110.00--115.00 *100.00--*99.50. It probably dates to EC.

CF. Payne, NC pl. 17:4.
Dimensions
A (larger fragment): P.H. 0.05; P.W. 0.049; Th. 0.005. B (smaller fragment): P.H. 0.027; P.W. 0.033; Th. 0.004
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Author
JS