Corinth Object: C 2002 50
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2002 50
Title:   FIGURED POINTED ARYBALLOS
Category Code:   C
Year:   2002
Object Number:   50
Description:   Small aryballos, probably pointed with rounded upper body, flattened low sloping shoulder, narrow cylindrical neck, broad horizontal outturned neck. Vertical handle attached to underside of rim.
Decoration:   On body animal frieze:shoulders and head of lion to lt., with head turned back to rt. Incised round eye and curving eyebrow, incised ear, line for mouth, nose; added purple along back. To lt. trace of 2nd animal. Line framing top of frieze; black and purple tongues on shoulder. Triangular rays on top of rim, line at outer circumference.
Material:   Fine buff clay.
Fine buff clay
Munsell Color:   10YR 7/3
Condition:   Fragment. Single frtg., preserving 1/4 of upper body and shoulder, complete neck, possibly half width of rim with tiny lip. Trace of upper handle attachment. Glaze largely worn away.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   D00.013 (neck)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.039
Dimensions Restored:   D00.037 (body)
Weight Description:   00.007
Weight:   00.007
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   EC?
Area:   Penteskouphia
Context:   Penteskouphia, Surface find by I. Tzonou-Herbst in ravine where t
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Penteskouphia
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Penteskouphia
Image: bw 2002 047 04
Basket: Penteskouphia, Surface find by I. Tzonou-Herbst in ravine where t