Corinth Object: C 1940 187
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1940 187
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1940
Object Number:   187
Description:   Shallow cup with offset flaring rim; wide-flaring body, small ring foot. Loop horizontal handles.
Decoration:   Linear style. Lip reserved; two horizontal lines at rim; handle zone bounded by a horizontal line above. Between handles: vertical strokes and central panel with small vertical squiggles. Body fully glazed. Undersurface reserved. Interior solid painted. Handles reserved with horizontal stripe.
Material:   Buff clay fired reddish yellow at lower body and base. Brownish black glaze, fired orangish at lower body and inside.
Munsell Color:   from 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown) to 5 YR 7/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Missing parts. Mended from many fragments. Small parts of rim and body missing. Restored.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   New Museum East. Well 1940-2.
Bibliography:   Weinberg, Hesperia 1948, no. D32
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece