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Profile view of mouth, handle, neck and shoulder. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Upper Portion of an Early Corinthian Alabastron
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 99
- Date
- Ca. 620-590 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.092
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Alabastron
- Pottery Ware
- Early Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building A
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E0 - E5 / S100 - S105 to *98.8
- Findspot
- west face of Building A
- Description
- A portion of the mouth, handle, neck, and shoulder of a small alabastron. Around the mouth are three thin concentric circles of glaze; on the shoulder, a series of tongues. The back of the handle is completely glazed. On the shoulder and upper body are two wide bands of glaze with traces of added red. Glaze: mostly vanished but dark brown, glossy, and crackled where preserved. Clay: medium textured with rough breaks. Greenish yellow in hue with a buff exterior. Munsell nos.: body, 5 YR 6/3 (pale olive); exterior, 5 YR 7/3--7/4 (pale yellow).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.042; diam. of rim 0.03
- Comments
- Cf. CVA Great Britain 6, Cambridge 1, III.C., 12, pl. 4, no. 30, inv. no. G.27 (G.B. 242), an EC alabastron with a similar decorative scheme and added red. For the shape, Ephesos XII.1, 19, K14, pl. 8, dated EC; for the mouth, 34, K96 and K97, pl. 19, dated as "probably EC."
- See Also
- See also: R8, No. HoB 585
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS