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)