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: ] | |
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) |