Corinth Object: C 1962 983a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1962 983a
Title:   NON-ATTIC, POSSIBLY ARGIVE, RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER
Category Code:   C
Year:   1962
Object Number:   983
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C 1962 983B C 1962 983C
Description:   Bell krater with straight, slightly flaring body, groove separates body from flaring rim with outward thickened rounded lip, flattened on the underside and inset from rim.
Decoration:   On body, woman (?) looking r. wearing fillet in added red (head and draped r. shoulder preserved, lower half of face missing); on rim laurel wreath running l. on top of a reserved line. Interior glazed black with reserved stripes inside lip and at base of rim. Style of drawing similar to C-1937-525 (Hesperia 45 [1976], p. 388, no. 21, pl. 88), C-1961-227 (Corinth XVIII.1, p. 89, no. 61, pl. 9), C-1964-478 (Corinth XVIII.1, p. 145, no. 339, pl. 38)
Material:   Fine pink clay with rare, medium, rounded and linear, black and white inlcusions and voids.
Munsell Color:   5YR 7/4 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., preserving 1/8 rim, small part of body.
Manufacture:   C20 WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.076
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. of lip 0.290
Weight Description:   0.140
Weight:   0.140
Period:   5th c. B.C.
Chronology:   Late 5th century B.C. (date based on Corinth XVIII.1, nos. 61 and 339), 430-420 BC (McPhee).
Area:   Kokkinovrysi
Context:   NB247
Provenance:   Argos (?) (McPhee)
Findspot Description:   NB 251 p. 26 Lot 1198: June 25 B1 and July 9 B4 each contained a fr of a large red-figure crater, which appeared elsewhere in 2 frr from July 12 B2 (Lot 1211).
Site:   Kokkinovrysi
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Kokkinovrysi
Image: bw 2008 068 04
Basket: NB247