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) |