| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1978 33 | |
| Title: | CORINTHIAN RED-FIGURE SQUAT LEKYTHOS | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1978 | |
| Object Number: | 33 | |
| Description: | Convex shoulder of high-shouldered squat-lekythos. Offset neck tapers sharply from shoulder, becoming narrow and cylindrical. Attachment for vertical handle on neck. Ref. Nos. : 1978-31-16A | |
| Decoration: | Decorated in red-figure technique. On shoulder, head and shoulders of woman to right holding alabastron. Head and shoulders of woman facing left. Behind her head of another woman also facing left (?). Beneath handle a circle with a dot in it (part of a scroll pattern?). Reserved band where neck joins shoulder. The neck decorated with black tongues on reserved panel separated by black relief lines. No relief contour. Relief line for interior markings. Added white: fillet around alabastron and dots in women's hair. Interior of neck glazed, interior body plain. For similar theme, Corinth. VII.4. NOS. 136, 139, PL. 24. | |
| Material: | Fine buff clay. Good hard-fired black glaze. Traces of miltos on reserved surfaces. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10yr 8/3 very pale brown. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving shoulder, neck and upper handle stump preserved. | |
| Manufacture: | C20 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.013 (Neck, at top) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.036 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB692 B13 P25 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Forum SW | |
| Bibliography: | Williams, Hesperia 1979. p.132 #39; McPhee, Hesperia 1983. p.150 #44 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: McPhee, Hesperia 52:2, 1983 Publication: Williams, Hesperia 48:2, 1979 Monument: Forum southwest |
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