Corinth Object: C 2015 30
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2015 30
Title:   MINIATURE THREE-HANDLED CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   2015
Object Number:   30
Description:   Cup with a hemispherical body with convex walls and a flaring tapered lip. Wide oval strap handles attached at shoulder and lip, slightly pinched at apex. Similar to KP-106 (Corinth XV.3, cat. 1495).
Decoration:   Rays around base, three bands above to shoulder, handle zone has two zigzagged bands to lip. Each handle has three bands on exterior. Three evenly spaced bands on interior from above base to just below lip. Decoration similar to KP-106 (Corinth XV.3, cat. 1495), KV-395 (Corinth XV.3, cat. 1724), and C-1964-191 (Corinth XVIII.1, no. 270; Corinth VII.5, no. 554).
Material:   Fine very pale brown clay with rare small rounded spherical black inclusions and rare small voids
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/2
Condition:   Fragment. Seven joining frgts., preserving most of upper half of body and two handles.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   Diam. 0.062 (rim)
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.033
Weight Description:   0.023
Weight:   0.023
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Area:   South Stoa
Context:   South Stoa, context 219, LOT 2015 077
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   James 2019, Hesperia 88.1, cat. 5
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Stoa
Images (5)
Basket: South Stoa, context 219