Corinth Object: C 1939 257a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1939 257a
Title:   ATTIC RED-FIGURE SQUAT LEKYTHOS
Category Code:   C
Year:   1939
Object Number:   257
Object Suffix:   a
Description:   Globular body and curved to nearly horizontal shoulder of a squat lekythos.
Decoration:   Nike moving right, her right hand extended; she wears chiton, himation and sakkos. No relief contour; dull black glaze. Attributed to the Group of Copenhagen 6442 by Beazley (ARV2, p. 707, no. 11).
Material:   Fine reddish yellow clay.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., mended from 3 pieces, preserving upper body and shoulder.
Period:   5th c. B.C.
Chronology:   ca. 450 BCE
Area:   Museum west
Context:   NB184 P114
Provenance:   Attica
Findspot Description:   Museum West. Well at K:23
Bibliography:   Beazley, ARV2 707.11; Boulter and Bentz, Hesperia 49.4, 1980, cat. 23.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Museum west
Image: bw 1965 113 31
Basket: NB184 P114