Corinth Object: C 1978 363a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1978 363a
Title:   CORINTHIAN RED-FIGURE PELIKE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1978
Object Number:   363
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C 1978 363B C 1978 363C
Description:   Pelike.
Decoration:   Fired brown glaze on exterior. Red miltos on reserved surfaces. Upper part of stele; at right, a figure (shoulder to thigh) standing in profile to left, right arm wrapped in a himation; at the upper left, a small reserved area, probably part of a second figure. Thin, streaky brown glaze on the lower inside.
Material:   Fine, hard clay, very pale brown to pale yellow, some voids.
Munsell Color:   10YR 7/4 (very pale brown)-2.5Y 7/4 (pale yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Three joining sherds from the upper wall. Glue suggests that there was another fragment but McPhee has not been able to find it in L 78 39 or 43 (2008).
Manufacture:   WM C20
Dimensions Actual:   Th. 0.004 (top)-0.003 (bottom)
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.050, W. 0.050
Period:   5th c. B.C.
Chronology:   425-400 B.C.
Area:   Forum southwest
Context:   NB690 B21 P49
    NB690 B62 P120, LOT 1978 039
    LOT 1978 039
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southwest
Image: digital 2009 2255