Corinth Object: C 1932 114
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1932 114
Title:   RHODIAN CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1932
Object Number:   114
Description:   Small disc foot with sloping outer face; wide-flaring convex sides reaching maximum diameter at handle zone, turning in slightly to smooth rounded lip. Horizontal loop handles.
Decoration:   Linear style. Lip glazed; six dot-rosettes in handle zone. Body with four group of three circumference lines. Edge of disc foot painted, undersurface reserved with a scatch retrograde letter. Interior black glazed with three purple bands, each edged with withe lines. On floor: petalled rosette on a reserved tondo. Around the tondo: inscription in rhodian alphabet.
Material:   Light brown, slightly micaceous clay. Black glaze with added purple and white.
Munsell Color:   7.5 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Missing parts. Mended from many fragments. Handles, small parts of lip and body missing. Restored.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   630-600 BC
Provenance:   East Greek (Rhodian)
Findspot Description:   Temple E. Well 1932-4.
Bibliography:   Boulter, AJA 1937, no. 52.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Images (4)