Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1947 449 | |
Title: | MOLDED RELIEF BOWL: HOMERIC | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1947 | |
Object Number: | 449 | |
Description: | Bowl with flat bottom, 2 thin base rings, hemispherical body, offset tall vertical rim flaring to round lip. | |
Decoration: | Bottom: rosette; band of double guilloche. Body: lt. to rt.: fallen armed warrior, head to rt. then pair of combatants with spears and shields, above lt. figure is | |
Writing: | stamp. series of Greek inscriptions written by figured groups: | |
Mythology: | Achilles Ajax ? Myrmidons | |
Material: | Fine light red clay (breaks all covered). | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 5.5/6 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Roughly 33 joining frgts., preserving complete profile except center bottom, ca. 3/4 whole. RIP. Kathleen Slane: the fragments of this bowl were found in NB 199 B20-22; only a single rim fragment comes from B8, which is much higher up in the well. | |
Manufacture: | C26 MW | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.094 D00.145 (ca., rim) | |
Period: | Hellenistic | |
Chronology: | Hellenistic Context ER | |
Area: | South Stoa | |
Context: | NB199 B21 P111 | |
NB199 B8 P20 | ||
NB199 B20 P59 | ||
NB199 B21 P61 | ||
NB199 B22 P62 | ||
Provenance: | Boeotia (GRE) | |
Bibliography: | Sinn, Die homerischen Bechern, AM 7 Beiheft MB5, p. 77, pl. 5; Hausmann, Hell. Reliefbecher, p. 29; JHS 1947, p. 37, pl. 12A; Weinberg, Hesperia 1949, p. 151, pl. 15; Byvanck, BABerish 29, 1954, 34 ff. N4.43; Edwards 1975, Corinth 7.3, p.165, note 23. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Kent, Corinth 8:3, 1966 Publication: Weinberg, Hesperia 18:1, 1949d Monument: South Stoa Images (17) Baskets (5) Notebook Page: NB 199, spread 34 (pp. 58 - 59) Notebook Page: NB 199, spread 46 (pp. 82 - 83) |