| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1931 78 | |
| Title: | ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE KRATER | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1931 | |
| Object Number: | 78 | |
| Description: | A single fragment from the upper body of a krater. | |
| Decoration: | On the body, Dionysos (arms, chest, and part of beard preserved), wearing a himation and chiton(?), stands in a chariot (front of chariot and pole stay preserved) to right. He holds the reins in both hands, as well as a kantharos in his left and goad in his right. A woman (upper body preserved), wearing a chiton and himation, stands alongside the chariot, also to right. Her left arm is slightly upraised and she may be holding an object which appears as small traces of black at the right edge. Red: Dionysos' beard, dots on his himation, top edge of kantharos, and dots on woman's drapery; white: groups of three dots on Dionysos' and the woman's drapery, wom- an's flesh, and two dots on object at right edge. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken all around. | |
| Manufacture: | C18 WM | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.0575, W. 0.083. | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | 520-500 B.C. | |
| Area: | New Museum | |
| Context: | New Museum, Exact provenance unknown | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Bibliography: | Brownlee, Hesperia 58.4, 1989, cat. 70. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 58:4, 1989 Monument: New Museum Image: bw 3696 Image: bw 1965 114 10 Basket: New Museum, Exact provenance unknown |
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