| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 257 | |
| Title: | CORINTHIAN RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 257 | |
| Decoration: | Glaze badly peeled, no relief contour evident. Relief line used for interior detail. Dilute glaze for bull's scalp and wreath. Miltos on all reserved surfaces. No slip. Wheel marks can be seen very distinctly below rim. A bull being led to sacrifice. At far right, woman, preserved from shoulders to below waist, walking right but probably looking back to left. She is wearing peplos with what appears to be a fringed scarf tucked into belt; she holds staff in her left hand and is reaching back to horn of bull, forequarters and left front leg, which is raised, are preserved. The bull is wreathed and appears to be moving peacefully to right. To left, obscuring mid-section og bull is torso of man. He too is moving right but may be looking back left. He is naked except for possible cloak over his left shoulder. He holds reins leading off toward bull in both his hands, but how they are attached to bull is obscure. Part of reversed band between body and rim. At far right, reserved area beginning to curve out for handle. Reserved band inside rim. | |
| Material: | Speckled, very buff clay | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Mended from six joining fragments. Fragment of body and beginning of rim. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.080, W. (cord) 0.185, TH. 0.005 | |
| Context: | NB162 P34 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | SC Agora. Drain at b-f 19-20. Grid 50-51:M. | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth VII.4, p.49, no.80; Corinth XXVIII.1, no.298 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Basket: NB162 P34 |