Early Corinthian Alabastron Fragments
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 87
- 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
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS