| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 2001 13 | |
| Title: | KRATER BODY WITH RELIEF GORGONEION | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 2001 | |
| Object Number: | 13 | |
| Description: | Large open shape with slightly convex body wall, on to which applied a Gorgoneion in relief. Head frontal, hair arranged in waves over forehead, layered wig framing face and neck; horizontally set bulbous eyes, flattened nose with broad nostrils, leering mouth with sharp teeth; large ears set at height of eyes. | |
| Decoration: | Traces of black glaze over all. | |
| Mythology: | Gorgoneion | |
| Material: | Core: coarse clay fired greenish-yellow to salmon where thickest, with ca. 5% fine to coarse angular spherical and tabular black to red mudstone inclusions, fewer coarse lime inclusions; relief: fine clay with possibly only lime inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Near 2.5Y 7/3 | |
| Condition: | Single frgt., preserving face, missing part of hair on right side and base; broken all edges. Traces of glaze, face worn. | |
| Manufacture: | MW | |
| Dimensions Actual: | T00.011 (krater wall) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.060 W00.07 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.116 | |
| Weight: | 0.116 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | 6th c. B.C. | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 2001 021 29 Notebook Page: NB 939, spread 80 (pp. 150 - 151) |
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