Corinth Object: C 1933 440 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | C 1933 440 | | Title: | | CORINTHIAN CYLINDRICAL VESSEL | | Category Code: | | C | | Year: | | 1933 | | Object Number: | | 440 | | Description: | | Cylindrical shape, thick-walled, with start of flare at lower break for foot or moulding (?), corresponding with evidence of floor on interior. Shape unclear. Possibly a stand? | | Decoration: | | Exterior possibly finely slipped with pale greenish white slip (near 5Y 7/3); decoration in black: at bottom two broad black circumference bands framing metope-frieze-like panel with alternating black and reserved rectangles. Above this, animal frieze: lt. to rt., two avians or possibly sirens, directed rt.; of 1st half lower half of body, tail, legs; of second, chest with probable long locks of hair, legs; 3rd avian at rt. with extended wings and spread tail with incised detail. No filling ornament. Early Corinthian? | | Material: | | Fine gray-green clay with 2% or less tiny black inclusions, voids. Clay fired pale grayish pink at core. | | Munsell Color: | | 2.5Y 7/4 | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving half circumference of cylinder with part of floor; glaze badly worn. | | Manufacture: | | C48 WM | | Dimensions Actual: | | D00.066 T00.0127 | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.065 | | Period: | | Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590) | | Chronology: | | Early Corinthian ? | | Area: | | Forum southeast South Stoa | | Context: | | NB139 P62 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Forum southeast South Stoa
Image: bw 2000 049 36
Basket: NB139 P62
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