Corinth Object: CP 112
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 112
Title:   LATE HELLADIC IIIC KYLIX
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   112
Description:   Kylix. Foot hollowed, made as disk, and added to flat bottomed stem, top of base almost vertical. Tall stem. Shallow conical bowl to vertical lipless rim. Two vertical flattened strap handles attached at rim and mid-body. FS 275.
Decoration:   Exterior: self-slipped with painted areas. Foot and lowest part of stem solidly painted, stem has six bands, lower body painted solid to below handles with thin band above it, thin band at lip. Handles painted on back with small stroke running onto body down to lower body band. Interior monochrome.
Material:   Fine hard pink buff clay
Munsell Color:   Surface 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown) to 2.5 YR 8/2 (white), Paint 2.5 YR 5/6 (red) to black
Condition:   Complete profile. 14 joining frgts., preserving all of vessel expect 1/3 of rim.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   Diam. of rim 0.151, Diam of base 0.056, H. 0.143-0.153
Period:   Late Helladic IIIB
Area:   Korakou
Context:   NB81 B84 P237
Findspot Description:   "House P NE room" in pencil on bottom; "House P" in Corinth Pottery Inventory I (CWB)
Bibliography:   Blegen 1921, p. 66 fig. 94 no. 3; Furumark 1941A FS 275.6; Rutter 1974 p. 202 no. 51
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Blegen, Korakou; a prehistoric settlement ... 1921
Publication: Furumark, The Chronology of Mycenaean Po... 1941
Publication: Rutter, The late Helladic IIIB and IIIC ... 1974
Monument: Korakou
Images (5)
Basket: NB81 B84 P237