Corinth Object: C 1940 183
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1940 183
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1940
Object Number:   183
Description:   Shallow cup with offset slightly flaring rim and rather low small ring foot. Flaring body. Horizontal loop handles slightly tilted upward.
Decoration:   Linear style. Lip reserved, rim and body glazed. Handle zone reserved. Interior fully glazed except for a reserved line at lip. Handles glazed, inside of handles reserved. Undersurface reserved. Outer edge of ring foot painted. See Corinth 7.2, no. An157
Material:   Pinkish buff clay. Brownish glaze fired dark red at lower body and inside.
Munsell Color:   from 10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown) to 2.5 YR 7/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Missing parts. Mended from many fragments. One third of rim, small parts of body missing. Restored.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   New Museum East. Well 1940-2.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 5441