| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 279 | |
| Title: | ATTIC RED-FIGURE KRATER | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 279 | |
| Description: | Small bell krater with nearly vertical body profile, flaring at start of rim. Tracte of handle attachment at left for horizontal handle. | |
| Decoration: | Exterior: At left head, torso of woman wearing peplos, moving right. Hair tied back with white fillet, 3 white petals. Holds out long white sash. At right youth, nude, stands with left leg raised, bends forward to right. Wears white garland. Round object between two figures. No relief contours. Interior glazed with reserved band, upper body. | |
| Material: | Fine, hard well-compacted clay, with very few inclusions, break rough, fired pinkish buff | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 6/7 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Five mended fragments | |
| Manufacture: | Wheelmade | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.078, W. 0.122 | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | third quarter 4th centruy BCE | |
| Context: | NB162 P34 | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Findspot Description: | Forum South Central. Drain 1937-1 | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 1976, p387-9, no19; J. Oakley et al. (Eds) 1977, p253, fig10; p256, no13 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 1965 113 15 Basket: NB162 P34 |
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