| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1973 306 | |
| Title: | ATTIC RED-FIGURE LEKYTHOS | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1973 | |
| Object Number: | 306 | |
| Description: | Small lekythos with ovoid body, maximum diameter well below median, tapering cylindrical nack offset from body. Single vertical strap handle attached to shoulder. | |
| Decoration: | Black glazed exterior, decorated in red-figure technique on front face with crouching sphinx, seated on a low plain plinth. Sphinx in profile, facing right, wing spread out behind head, tail arched behinf body. Anatomical details summarily and carelessly rendered by thin black-glazed line. | |
| Material: | Pink Attic clay, black glaze | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Mended from several fragments, preserving most of body, broken above base and at neck. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.082, max Diam. 0.065-0.068 | |
| Area: | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | |
| Context: | NB592 B150 P158, LOT 1973 134 | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Findspot Description: | Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | |
| Bibliography: | Pemberton 1989, Corinth 18.1, cat. 367 | |
| Site: | Acrocorinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Pemberton, Corinth 18:1, 1989 Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore |