Corinth Object: C 1940 185
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1940 185
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1940
Object Number:   185
Description:   Shallow cup with offset vertical rim and rather high, small ring foot. Flaring body. Horizontal loop handles slightly tilted upward.
Decoration:   Linear style. Lip reserved, rim and body glazed. Handle zone reserved with with a glazed line above handles. Interior fully glazed except for a reserved line at lip. Handles glazed, inside of handles reserved. Undersurface reserved. Outer edge of ring foot reserved. See Corinth 7.2, no. An147, An184.
Material:   Buff clay. Brownish black glaze, fired dark red inside.
Munsell Color:   2.5 Y 8/3 (pale brown)
Condition:   Missing parts. Mended from many fragments. One handle, one-third of rim, center of base missing. Restored.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   New Museum East. Well 1940-2.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 2000 009 14a