| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1939 3a | |
| Title: | ATTIC RED-FIGURE SQUAT LEKYTHOS | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1939 | |
| Object Number: | 3 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | C-1939-003B | |
| Description: | Lekythos with flaring ring foot, convex resting surface, flat undersurface. Attenuated globular body, nearly horizontal shoulder, tall narrow neck, vertical strap handle attached to shoulder and against neck. | |
| Decoration: | Resting and undersurfaces reserved, body black glazed except for red-figure scene opposite handle, reserved ground line, circling base of body. Scene: crouching sphinx, facing rt., hair bound by fillet, knot at nape of neck, wings extended with dooted coverts, 3 rows of flight feathers; to either side fluted column with flat capital. Shoulder reserved, black circumference line defining zone with palmette chain: palmettes tilted and upright with one directly above sphinx upside down with thicker petals, all linked by line with dots; neck glazed. Near the Icarus Painter | |
| Mythology: | Sphinx | |
| Material: | Fine, well-compacted light red clay with less than 2% fine lime inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slightly yellower than 5YR 6/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Nine joining frgts., preserving nearly 1/2 foot, and body, 9/10 shoulder, neck; partly RIP. After theft: removed much of previous plaster. | |
| Manufacture: | C20 WM | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.086 D00.066 (max) D00.012 (neck) | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.06 (foot) | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | first half 5th c. B.C. | |
| Area: | Museum west | |
| Context: | NB184 P114 | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Bibliography: | ARV2 P1667 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Museum west Image: bw 2001 001 10 Image: bw 2001 001 11 Basket: NB184 P114 |
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