Corinth Object: C 1940 206
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1940 206
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1940
Object Number:   206
Description:   Flat cup, with offset high rim, sharp and contracted shoulder, very wide-flaring body, very low disk base. Horizontal loop handles, tilted upward.
Decoration:   Linear style. Lip glazed; rim reserved with three horizontal glazed lines; shoulder glazed; body fully glazed except for aserved band in the middle. Undersurface reserved. Interior and handles fully glazed.
Material:   Buff pinkish clay. Brownish glaze.
Munsell Color:   from 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown) to 7.5 YR 8/3 (pink).
Condition:   Fragment. Mended from many fragments. One handle, parts of rim, body and base 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. D36
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 5441