If you use the little Boston pointed
aryballos, Protocorinthian of c. 650 BCE, you ought to have (or might want to have) a Corinthian
horse on a vase almost exactly a century later, c. 550 BCE. Here is an image you can use for sure: it is mine, and, with the Louvre's permission, I took it for teaching. It is a red-ground
hydria (the shape imitating metal vases: note the handles) by an artist nicknamed the Damon Painter (it is
his namepiece). By this time,
Athens was competing, and some of the fanciest Corinthian vases, like this one, coated the cream-colored clay with a
red wash, to make it a
bit gaudier. Shortly thereafter, ambitious Corinthian vase painting ceased. This
hydria is Louvre E642, from Caere (Cervetri); the Etruscans were
good customers, but so were the Greek colonies of
Sicily and South
Italy.
You can see why earlier authors dated the first pegasoi earlier than today's consensus: the pointed
aryballos pegasos is the one that looks like them. But, according to today's consensus, the first pegasoi were
already archaizing when Corinthian coinage began. I am sure that there is archaeological evidence for the dating; there must be lots of coins found in context as well as some in sealed
hoards to date the early ones as well as the first ones with a little
head in the
incuse (dated same as first Syracusan ones with a little
head), but I am not up on this bibliography. There have been some authors who have tried to re-date the
pottery, but the archaeological evidence
still holds solid on the received dating (give or take a decade!), which I have given you.
Pat Lawrence