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Corinth Object: C 1948 164 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | C 1948 164 | | Title: | | MYCENAEAN KRATER | | Category Code: | | C | | Year: | | 1948 | | Object Number: | | 164 | | Description: | | High, almost cylindrical neck with narrow out-turned rim. Vertical handle from rim to shoulder. | | Decoration: | | Black glaze fired red in small area. Inside, only neck glazed. Outside, all of neck glazed. Broad band looping beside and under handle. Frieze: A) Nude man, standing left, between two floral ornaments; to right, chariot with two horses, left, three figures with spotted garments in chariot. Above horses, line of S-pattern. B) two horses and chariot, left, three figures in spotted robes in chariot. Above, horses, S-pattern; long outline triangles pendant from reins. Under horses, double volute design. All figures with outlined heads and round, dotted eyes. Below frieze, three wide horizontal bands, into which horses' feet and lower part of chariot wheels project. | | Material: | | Buff clay, gray at core. | | Condition: | | Fragment. Missing: base, one side, both handles. On frieze, only rear parts of horses preserved. | | Dimensions Actual: | | Diam. 0.336, Diam. of rim 0.267 | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H. 0.385 | | Dimensions Restored: | | H. 0.475 | | Period: | | Mycenaean - use 12 | | Bibliography: | | Weinberg, Hesperia XVIII, 1949, p. 156, pls. 23-24; Archaeology 13 (1960), p. 9 fig. 8; Vandenabeck-Olivier, Ideogrammes, 181; Vermeule-Kanegraphis, Mycenaean Pictorial Vase-Painting (1982), p. 211. | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Weinberg, Hesperia 18:1, 1949d
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Notebook Page: NB 201, spread 20 (pp. 25 - 26)
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