Corinth Object: C 1963 580
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1963 580
Title:   POWDER PYXIS
Category Code:   C
Year:   1963
Object Number:   580
Description:   Power pyxis lid with straight walls, flaring beveled edge, flat top with four equal concentric grooves at edge, two wider ridges 0.011 inward. Similar to L-73-69-9 (Corinth 7.5 no. 87).
Decoration:   Reddish brown glaze on body and outer grooves, band of brown stepped triangles, bands of dark brown alternate with the black dotted ridges, thin brown band, and possibly brown zeta/3 bar sigma band.
Material:   Fine pink clay with few small tabular angular white inclusions
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 7/3 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Single piece preserving part of lid and edge. Glaze.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Preserved:   Circumference. 0.036
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. Of rim 0.10
Period:   Classical
Chronology:   5th c. BC (Corinth 7.5 no. 87)
Area:   Kokkinovrysi
Context:   NB256 B1 P94
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Kokkinovrysi
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Kokkinovrysi
Image: bw 1965 008 15