| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1968 98 | |
| Title: | CORINTHIAN RED-FIGURE FRAGMENT | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1968 | |
| Object Number: | 98 | |
| Description: | Ovoid shape, possibly an oinochoe or lekythos. | |
| Decoration: | Fine quality black glaze, chipped and peeled in places. Light red slip over reserved areas. Added matt white. Female figure facing to her right; wearing a chiton whose folds are rendered by relief lines. One arm extended. Head and facial features poorly drawn. Placed obliquely on the hair are two dots of added white. Interior unglazed. Curving outline to right of draped figure at ca. elbow height. Glaze peeled over much of surface. | |
| Material: | Fine, fairly hard clay, light buff in color. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Four joining sherds preserving part of body and head on single figure. Section broke all around. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.056, W 0.043, TH 0.004 | |
| Area: | Sacred Spring | |
| Context: | NB403 B2 P130 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Sacred Spring. Disturbance sealed by mudbrick altar floor (floor 7). 74.440 to approx level of paving. Trench 1; 74.440-73.589 E of reservoir. | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 50(3), p.265; Corinth VII.4, p.63, no.141 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Sacred Spring |
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