Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1940 97 | |
Title: | EARLY CORINTHIAN OINOCHOE BY THE SYNETHEIA PAINTER | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1940 | |
Object Number: | 97 | |
Description: | Oinochoe with low flarign ring foot, flat resting and undersurface. Ovoid body curving into high, rounded shoulder, short wide neck, trefoil rim. Attachment for handle on shoulder. | |
Decoration: | Exterior of foot glazed brown-black with thin reserved line at top and bottom. Widely spaced rays on lower third of body, broad glazed band with W-R-W lines at bottom and top. Animal friezes: one below handle, 2nd on shoulder. Lower: from handlre, to rt., walking goose, ruminating goat, both to rt.; lion to lt. with raised tail; bull to rt. on axis with spout, facing lion to lt. with head in profile; goat to rt. Incision for details, incised blob filling ornament. On upper frieze: ruminating goat to rt., lion to lt., bull to rt., goose to rt. Similar ornament; black square surrounding handle base. Rest glazed, continuing into mouth and neck. | |
Material: | Fine buff clay, pink at core. | |
Munsell Color: | Slightly yellower than 7.5YR 7/4 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Numerous joining frgts., preserving complete profile. Missing small fragments of body; handle wholly restored. Foot chipped. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. to rim 0.205, D. foot 0.071, Max. D. 0.165 m. | |
Bibliography: | Weinberg, Hesperia XVII, 1948, p. 215, #D2, and pl. 77; Amyx CorVP Synetheia Ptr. A-3 Ecor; Well 1940-2 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the ... 1988 Publication: Weinberg, Hesperia 17:3, 1948 Images (6) |