| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 1000 | |
| Title: | ATTIC RED-FIGURE KRATER | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 1000 | |
| Description: | Convex body sherd of an open shaped vessel, probably a krater. | |
| Decoration: | Exteriro red-figure scene: partially draped figure at left moving right towards second figure, torso of figure wearing chiton, dilute glaze in sleeves, and holding small dolphin in left hand. Second figure may be Thetis (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 137 or Paris, Paris, Louvre G53) or a Nereid (Louvre F234). Relief contours visible around each figure, thinner glaze between figures. | |
| Mythology: | Struggle of Peleus and Thetis, possibly. | |
| Attributes: | Thetis, Peleus | |
| Material: | Fine, reddish brown clay with few rounded tabular white inclusions and rare rounded spherical voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/4 (light reddish brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single sherd, broken on all sides; red-figure, chipping and scratches on exterior; thin glaze and chipping on interior. | |
| Manufacture: | C20 WM | |
| Weight Description: | 0.13 | |
| Weight: | 0.13 | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Second quarter of 5th c. BC. Cf. Boulter and Bentz. | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Findspot Description: | Provenance unknown | |
| Bibliography: | Boulter and Bentz, 1980, Hesperia 49.4, p. 301, no. 19. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 1965 023 30 |
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