Corinth Object: C 1963 466
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1963 466
Title:   LATE CORINTHIAN LEKYTHOS
Category Code:   C
Year:   1963
Object Number:   466
Description:   Lekythos with walls tapering into short bulging neck, bell mouth with inturned rounded lip. Similar to Corinth 13 no. 220-2 and 250-12 (but slightly bigger and broader mouth) and Necrocorinthia no. 1378.
Decoration:   Black glaze carying to brown over exterior and part of interior mouth and neck. Red glaze band on rim.
Material:   Fine very pale brown clay with light gray core with few fine sparkling and few small tabular angular white inclusions and rare small spherical angular voids
Munsell Color:   Surface: 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown), Core: 10YR 7/1 (light gray)
Condition:   Fragment. Single piece preserving rim and neck. Chipped. Paint preserved.
Dimensions Actual:   Diam of rim 0.047
Dimensions Preserved:   H 0.039
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   Late Corinthian ( last quarter of the 6th Corinth 13 no. 250-12)
Area:   Kokkinovrysi
Context:   NB247 B2 P78
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Kokkinovrysi
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Kokkinovrysi
Image: bw 1965 008 01
Image: digital 2019 0215
Basket: NB247 B2 P78