Corinth Object: C 1978 134
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1978 134
Title:   ATTIC RED-FIGURE OPEN SHAPE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1978
Object Number:   134
Description:   Body sherd from wall of large open shape.
Decoration:   Outside: woman, frontal view, with left breast, left upper arm, elbow preserved, also four fingers of right hand poised under breast. Trace of two locks of hair on upper chest. E and N written on glaze in background at proper left siide of figure in clay slip. Perhaps trace of second figure to right of woman; reserved area below arm, possibly rim of louterion? Contour lines used in woman, area to her left; rim of louterion without contour lines. Slightly lighter glaze line for nipple of breast. Inside: totally black glazed, slightly streaky.
Writing:   dipinto. In white: ΕΝ
Material:   Fine, hard pinkish tan clay, good black glaze.
Munsell Color:   5yr 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Single sherd, broken on all sides.
Manufacture:   C20
Dimensions Actual:   T00.006
Dimensions Preserved:   W00.053
Period:   5th c. B.C.
Chronology:   Not later than mid0fifth century B.C. c.500
Area:   Forum southwest
Context:   NB699 B196 P77
Provenance:   Attica
Findspot Description:   Forum SW
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southwest