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 |