| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1934 107 | |
| Title: | CONVENTIONALIZING PYXIS LID | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1934 | |
| Object Number: | 107 | |
| Description: | Lid with conical profile, tapering from rim with straight profile to base of solid knob; knob had cylindrical stem, beveled just below flat top. A flange, contracting from vertical, set in 00.014 m. from rim. | |
| Decoration: | Exterior: decorated with concentric rings, from rim to base of handle: black band, narrow band with thin black stripe in center, broad purple band, thin reserved with thin brown-black stripe; solid black at base of knob and continuing to top, top has lopsided black ring at edge, broad reserved band, solid black circle in center. Underside of lid reserved. | |
| Material: | Fine buff clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slightly pinker than 10YR 8/3 | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Three joining frgts, complete. Rim chipped. | |
| Manufacture: | C22 WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.037 D00.068 (rim) D00.037 (flange) D00.023 (knob) | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | Second half 6th c. or 5th | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB143 P125 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum southwest Image: bw 2000 051 16 Basket: NB143 P125 Notebook Page: NB 143, spread 68 (pp. 125 - 126) |
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