• m10-cor-124-10
    Two Corinthian aryballoi: M10 Cor 123 and 124. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

One-Third of a Middle Corinthian Round Aryballos

Date
Ca. 595-570 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P85.032
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Round Aryballos
Pottery Ware
Middle Corinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
MMS
Trench
MMS-I 85.1
Locus
MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
B-Grid Coordinates
E144.7 / S69.25 *100.25
Findspot
MMS-I-B
Description

One-third of the body. Lotus pattern with one long sepal remaining on the right side and three central petals. Added red on both the sepals and the petals. Outline technique, no incision. Glaze: worn. Clay: hard and fine. Munsell no. 7.5 YR 7/4 (pink).

Found with Cor 123 (see for comparanda). See also Cor 138.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.055; P.W. 0.052; Th. 0.004
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Published: BASOR Suppl. 25 (1987) 68, n. 14. For the lotus pattern in general, see Payne, NC 146 -47, 287, no. 485A.
Author
JS