Corinth Object: C 2003 9
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2003 9
Title:   BLACK-FIGURE COLUMN KRATER
Category Code:   C
Year:   2003
Object Number:   9
Description:   Column krater with echinoid body.
Decoration:   Black figure decoration of a bearded man, possibly Dionysos, walking or standing to the right, head turned, looking back to left; wears chiton and himation; left arm bent in front of him, right hand holding folds of himation; partially preserved sounding box of cithara with spare strings hanging below, behind bearded man. Beard, stripes in himation and horizontal line on cithara painted with added red; outlines rendered with incision. Black glazed interior.
Mythology:   Dionysos
Attributes:   Cithara
Material:   Fine purple clay with rare medium lime and black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/6
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining fragments preserving small part of body; surface is scratched, glaze worn.
Manufacture:   C18 WM
Dimensions Actual:   T00.004
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.044 W00.075
Weight Description:   00.020
Weight:   00.020
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   Late 6th to early 5th c. BC.
Area:   Panaghia west
Context:   NB953 B86 P183, LOT 2003 071
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panaghia west
Image: bw 2003 014 03
Basket: NB953 B86 P183