Corinth Object: C 1940 87 Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | C 1940 87 | Title: | | EARLY CORINTHIAN CORINTH OINOCHOE | Category Code: | | C | Year: | | 1940 | Object Number: | | 87 | Description: | | Round-mouthed oinochoe. Wide low ring foot, globular body, splayed rim with round lip, high band handle lip to shoulder. | Decoration: | | Black figure style. Unglazed; wide frieze on body, bounded below by broad horizontal band and a thinner line; short rays at base. In the frieze, two padded dancers: one running to right and looking backward; the other dances or jumps a third figure (?) on the left. The runner is bearded, he has a collar and a chiton with sleeves. Applied red paint on chiton. Outer edge of ring foot painted. Undersurface reserved. No other decorations. | Material: | | Pale buff clay. Dark brown paint, partly worn off. Applied red paint mostly gone. | Munsell Color: | | 2.5 Y 7/3 (pale brown) | Condition: | | Fragment. Foot, parts of rim and body preserved. Restored. | Manufacture: | | WM | Period: | | Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590) | Chronology: | | Late in Early Corinthian Period (600-590 BC ca.) | Provenance: | | Corinth | Findspot Description: | | New Museum East. Well 1940-2. | Bibliography: | | Weinberg, Hesperia 1948, no. D7; Corinth 7.2, no. 71; Hesperia, Suppl. 28, sub. No. 112. | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Images (4)
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