Corinth Object: C 1947 465
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1947 465
Title:   ARTICULATED KANTHAROS
Category Code:   C
Year:   1947
Object Number:   465
Description:   Articulated kantharos with flaring ring base. Resting surface tapered to convex interior with nipple in center. Exterior of foot has profile wheel grooved in two degrees. Biconical body with angular carination set at approx. two-thirds the height of the body. Lower walls echinoid. Upper walls slightly convex, inclined. Tapered lip, outturned.
Decoration:   Black glaze over all. Scraped groove just above carination. One miltos covered scraped groove at bottom of handle zone and one miltos covered scrapaed groove just below lip. Side A: necklace with incised string and ties; pendants in added paint in handle zone within two upper grooves.
Material:   Fine very pale brown clay with few small to medium black inclusions and rare voids.
Munsell Color:   10YR 8/3 very pale brown
Condition:   Complete profile. Eight frgts., preserve all the foot, one third of body, one fourth of lip. Surface has exterior black glaze mostly worn and on the interior black glaze partly worn. Faint traces of miltos in incised grooves. Traces of differential firing.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.126, diam. of foot 0.065, H. of carination 0.044, max. diam. of body 0.132
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. of Lip 0.110
Weight Description:   0.179
Weight:   0.179
Period:   Hellenistic
Area:   South Stoa
Context:   NB199 B22 P62
Bibliography:   Corinth VII.3 p.84 no.461
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Edwards, Corinth 7:3, 1975
Monument: South Stoa
Image: bw 2007 003 01a
Image: digital 2005 0498
Image: digital 2005 0499
Basket: NB199 B22 P62
Notebook Page: NB 199, spread 46 (pp. 82 - 83)