Corinth Object: C 1940 199
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1940 199
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1940
Object Number:   199
Description:   Flat cup with offset flaring rim, sharp and contracted shoulder, very wide-flaring body.
Decoration:   Linear style. Lip and rim glazed; handle zone with vertical strokes at sides; body fully glazed. Interior glazed except for a reserved band at lip. Handle reserved with glazed stripe.
Material:   Buff clay, pinkish at core. Brownish glaze, fired dark red at body, partly worn off.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown); core: 7.5 YR 8/3 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Three joining fragment preserving one third of rim and shoulder. One handle and part of body preserved.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   New Museum East. Well 1940-2.
Bibliography:   Weinberg, Hesperia 1948
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 2000 010 10a