Corinth Object: C 1963 584
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1963 584
Title:   CONVENTIONALIZING OMPHALOS PHIALE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1963
Object Number:   584
Description:   Omphalos phiale with round bottom, convex walls sharply turning up toward central button omphalos undercut to create mushroom shape. Undersurface has conical depression beneath omphalos. Similar to C 47-704 (Corinth 7.5 no. 256).
Decoration:   Broad red band on body, another around omphalos base, and four narrow concentric rings on omphalos.
Material:   Fine very pale brown clay with rare small tabular angular white inclusions and rare small platy angular and rare small tabular angular voids
Munsell Color:   10YR 7/4 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Single piece preserving central omphalos and some body. Worn. Paint.
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.015
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   middle to third quarter of 6th c BC (Corinth 7.5 no.256)
Area:   Kokkinovrysi
Context:   NB247 B2 P78
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Kokkinovrysi
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Kokkinovrysi
Image: bw 1965 008 27
Image: digital 2019 0202
Basket: NB247 B2 P78