Corinth Object: C 1938 744
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 744
Title:   INSCRIBED CYMA KANTHAROS
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   744
Description:   Cyma kantharos with straight upper body profile, start of flaring lip. Circumference groove 0.034 m. below upper break, defining handle zone.
Decoration:   Dull black glaze inside and out; above groove a pink circumference line; broad panel with incsription, then row of pendant drops in pink-painted clay slip, above which 2 circumference lines, upper one pink.
Writing:   graffito. Part of Greek graffito in handle zone: ]IS.[
Material:   Fine off-white clay.
Munsell Color:   Between 10YR 8/2 and 2.5Y 8/2
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts. of upper body, broken all edges; part of glaze missing.
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.049 W00.028
Period:   Hellenistic
Chronology:   Late 4th or early 3rd c. B.C.
Area:   South Stoa west
Context:   NB183 P112
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Stoa west
Image: bw 1997 026 09
Basket: NB183 P112
Notebook Page: NB 183, spread 60 (pp. 111 - 112)