Corinth Object: C 2006 2
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2006 2
Title:   MIDDLE GEOMETRIC I SKYPHOS
Category Code:   C
Year:   2006
Object Number:   2
Description:   Skyphos with disk foot with slightly concave undersurface, ovoid body, vertical rim with vertical tapered lip, canted horizontal loop handles, round in section, attached to shoulder. Profile similar to (but not identical) CP-865 (Weinberg 1943, Corinth 7.1, cat. 61).
Decoration:   Black glazed overall interior and exterior except for reserved undersurface of foot, reserved area between handle roots, reserved band around exterior and interior rim, with groups of black vertical lines at regular intervals on interior reserved rim band. Similar to Pfaff 1999, Hesperia 68, p. 96, fig. 27.
Material:   Fine pale yellow with rare medium rounded spherical white lime, rare medium rounded platy brown inclusions and rare platy angular voids.
Munsell Color:   Surface: 5Y 8/3 ( pale yellow)
Condition:   Complete or intact. Numerous joining frgts., preserving complete vessel except for 4 chips missing from rim and two from body. Glaze completely worn on exterior, partially preserved on interior.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.078, Diam. of foot 0.067, Diam. max. 0.17, Diam. of rim 0.139, Th. 0.004
Weight Description:   0.32
Weight:   0.32
Period:   Middle Geometric (825-750)
Chronology:   based on comparanda, according to DeVries
Area:   Panaghia west
Context:   NB979 B43 P75
    NB979 B55 P105
    NB979 B42 P70, LOT 2006 018
    LOT 2006 018
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Vessel was found east of the sarcophagus of GR 2006-4 in the more shallow of the two pits. It was sitting inside the mouth of amphora C 2006 1. Five fragments of vessel were found in B 42, one in B 55, and the rest in B 43.
Bibliography:   Sanders et al. 2014, Hesperia 83.1
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Sanders et al., Hesperia 83:1, 2014
Monument: Panaghia west
Image: bw 2006 019 31
Image: digital 2013 0951
Image: digital 2013 0952
Basket: NB979 B42 P70
Basket: NB979 B43 P75
Basket: NB979 B55 P105
Notebook Page: NB 979, spread 43 (pp. 69 - 70)
Notebook Page: NB 979, spread 46 (pp. 75 - 76)
Notebook Page: NB 979, spread 61 (pp. 105 - 106)