| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1927 37 | |
| Title: | KNIDIAN RELIEF WARE PHALLIC VESSEL | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1927 | |
| Object Number: | 37 | |
| Description: | Relief vessel with grotesque head and torso at top and winged phallus below. Head showing details of hair, grape ? wreath and dangling earrings, tilted to right and with grimacing expression. Shoulders covered by mantle; left arm bent at elbow and hand with fingers spread clutches throat; right arm straighter, forearm missing. Possibly stomach with bellybutton and diagonal lines below where amantle wrapped across body. Wings outspread at sides below elbows and large phallus below. Extra detail with incision, round and curved punches, added to hair, wreath, facial features, wings, drapery ? across stomach and edge of foreskin. Vessel made in two-part plaster mould, all relief in front, back with low ridge and incised signature. Parts joined wet and joint pared on exterior. Mouth of vessel oval from front to back. Separately made ring handle (with three grooves) attached on left side at level of temple. Inscription in Greek along ridge on the back. | |
| Material: | Hard gritty light reddish brown fabric with moderate tiny gray inclusions and more, smaller white bits. A little mica visible on surface and more (but still little) in glaze. In back core fired gray where thick. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 to 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Thirteen joining fragments give complete vessel except riht side of torso and one piece from signature. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.238, W. 0.086 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 2nd half of the 2nd c. A.C according to Hesperia 1993, p 483-505 | |
| Area: | Odeion | |
| Context: | NB96 P100 | |
| Findspot Description: | East of Odeion | |
| Bibliography: | Slane and Dickie 1993, Hesperia 62, p. 483-505; Faraone 2017, Transformation of Ancient Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times, Fig. 5.4 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Odeion Notebook Page: NB 96, spread 55 (pp. 100 - 101) |
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