Corinth Object: MP 88
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   MP 88
Title:   ATTIC WHITE GROUND LEKYTHOS
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   MP
Object Number:   88
Description:   Lekythos with disk foot, narrow stem, cylindrical body, low sloping shoulder, narrow neck, tall flaring rim with flat broad lip. Vertical handle attached to shoulder and neck.
Decoration:   Foot reserved, top and lower body glazed. White slip on body for figured scene: standing draped female, to rt., holding wreath in both, outstreched hands. Chair to left and partly behind her. Outline in dark brown, solid black for hair and himation, added white for flesh folds. Above, border of double maeande and cross and dots. Palmettes in black glaze on shoulder, rest black glaze.
Material:   Fine pinkish-buff Attic clay.
Condition:   Complete or intact. Intact.
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.265, max. Diam. 0.085
Bibliography:   Shoe, Hesperia 1932, p. 80-81, fig. 23.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Shoe, Hesperia 1:1, 1932
Image: bw 2476