| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 994 | |
| Title: | ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE VOLUTE KRATER | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 994 | |
| Description: | Fragment preserving part of the neck and mouth with raised band of a volute-krater. | |
| Decoration: | The outside of the mouth is decorated with a meander to right and a black line. Black line just below the overhang, at the top of the figured zone. On the neck, a procession of figures to right. A maenad, wearing a chiton, himation, and fillet and holding krotala in each hand, dances right but turns her head around left towards a bridled donkey or mule (only the head remains). Above the animal's head is an unidentified object, perhaps part of a vine branch. At the right, a satyr (torso preserved) moves right, and his right arm appears to be upraised. Red: maenad's fillet, dots on her drapery, nostril of donkey or mule; white: maenad's flesh, muzzle of donkey or mule. | |
| Mythology: | Return of Hephaistos (?) | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken all around. Black glaze chipped in areas on exterior and interior. Added red and white badly flaked and faded. | |
| Manufacture: | Black Figure | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.02 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | W. 0.091 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | 510-500 B.C. | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Bibliography: | Brownlee, Hesperia 58.4, 1989, cat.62. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 58:4, 1989 Image: bw 1965 114 09 |
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