| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1934 198 | |
| Title: | ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1934 | |
| Object Number: | 198 | |
| Description: | Lekythos with cylindrical body, flaring slightly at base of shoulder. | |
| Decoration: | The scene is the Theban sphinx flanked by a pair of standing onlookers. Two males and the sphinx. At right, youth in himation leans on staff to left, feet crossed; his hair is tied up in krobylos with long fillet. Sphinx (head, tail, and upper part of wings not preserved) seated to right on low stand. At left, lower part of staff, probably belonging to second leaning male. Vine branches in field. Above, meander to right. On shoulder, traces of decoration (rays?). White: fillet and dots on himation of right-hand figure, dots and lines on sphinx's stand, sphinx's chest, belly, forelegs, line on back legs, two lines on wing. | |
| Mythology: | sphinx | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken at juncture to foot, preserving body to base of shoulder, half body missing. | |
| Manufacture: | C18 WM | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | 490-470 B.C. | |
| Area: | South Basilica | |
| Context: | NB142 P194 | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Bibliography: | Brownlee, Hesperia 64.3, 1995, cat. 203. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 64:3, 1995 Monument: South Basilica Basket: NB142 P194 Notebook Page: NB 142, spread 102 (pp. 194 - 195) |
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