| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1933 130 | |
| Title: | ATTIC WHITE GROUND BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1933 | |
| Object Number: | 130 | |
| Description: | Lekythos with cylindrical wall, edge of shoulder turning inward. | |
| Decoration: | Foreparts of three horses of quadriga galloping right, trampling warrior (helmet, shoulders, arm preserved). Round shield (device: wreath) on edge closes scene at right. Spear(?) runs obliquely from horses' legs to shield. Nonsense inscription below horses' heads. Above, ivy. On shoulder, part of lotus-bud chain. Red: manes of horses, forelock of one horse, dots on collar of one horse, line(?) on collar of one horse, line on helmet crest, dots on shield rim, three lines on black lower body (one above and two just below reserved band). White: shield device, dots below collar of one horse. Attributed to the Diosphos Painter [Haspels]. | |
| Writing: | dipinto. Dipinto in black glaze on body of vase below horses heads. Greek, | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., mended from two pieces. | |
| Manufacture: | C16 C18 WM | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Early 5th century B.C. | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB140 P17 | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Bibliography: | Haspels, ABL, p. 95, note 2; p. 232, no. 9.; Brownlee, Hesperia 64.3, 1995, cat. 190. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 64:3, 1995 Monument: Forum southwest Image: bw 3698 Image: bw 1965 114 04 Basket: NB140 P17 Notebook Page: NB 140, spread 14 (pp. 16 - 17) |
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