| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1938 743 | |
| Title: | ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE LEKANIS LID | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1938 | |
| Object Number: | 743 | |
| Description: | Large lid with very slight convex curve with sharper down curve on underside of outer break. | |
| Decoration: | Exterior in black-figure: most of a siren in profile to lt., preserving back of head, neck, body, one leg and wing. Hair long and wavy with single lock extending to belly; wing outlined by incision, broad purple stripe with start of incised feathers; possible trace of added white on neck; to lt. an unintelligible black triangular form and line; at lower lt. break a black volute. Interior black glazed with single white and red circumference lines. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish clay with occasional fine to coarser voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 5/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken all edges. | |
| Manufacture: | C18 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | T00.006 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.059 W00.060 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | 2nd half 6th c. B.C.; context 2nd half 5th c. | |
| Area: | South Stoa middle | |
| Context: | NB161 P73 | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Stoa middle Image: bw 1997 026 10 Basket: NB161 P73 Notebook Page: NB 161, spread 41 (pp. 73 - 74) |
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