Corinth Object: C 1940 96 Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | C 1940 96 | Title: | | PC-EC TRANSITIONAL TREFOIL OINOCHOE | Category Code: | | C | Year: | | 1940 | Object Number: | | 96 | Description: | | Oinochoe with small flaring ring foot, flat resting surface. Full belly and high, rounded shoulder. | Decoration: | | Black figure style. Shoulder with incised tongues; W-R-R-W lines below shoulder. Animal frieze bordered by W-R lines above and W-R-R-W lines below. Frieze: double lotus at center flanked by heraldic lions; beyond right lion: goat to r., feline to l., bull to r., lion to l., swan to r. Filling ornament: dot rosettes. Applied purple for details of animals. Broad black band with W-R-R-R-W lines above rays at base. Edges of foot fully painted. | Material: | | Pale buff clay, pinkish at core. Black and applied purple paint. | Munsell Color: | | 2.5 Y 7/3 (pale brown) | Condition: | | Fragment. Mended from many fragments. Shoulder, neck, mouth, handle missing. Partly restored. | Manufacture: | | WM | Period: | | PC-EC Transitional (630-620/615) | Chronology: | | Transitional Proto-Corinthian to Early Corinthian | Provenance: | | Corinth | Findspot Description: | | New Museum East. Well 1940-2. | Bibliography: | | Weinberg, Hesperia 1948, no. D1 | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Image: bw 5430
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