Corinth Object: CP 145
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 145
Title:   MIDDLE CORINTHIAN WIDE-MOUTHED OINOCHOE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   145
Description:   Flaring foot, globular body, short vertical neck, horizontal rim with tapered lip, vertical strap set on shoulder
Decoration:   Purple paint on foot, band of glaze on body with two white stripes, siren in profile to right with wings and outstretched, incised outline at tail, added purple on wings, inside zig-zag on tail
Mythology:   Siren
Material:   Fine yellow-buff clay
Munsell Color:   10YR 7/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Complete profile, numerous fragments, whole foot with few chips, eighty percent of body, fifteen percent of rim, small fragment of handle at springing of shoulder
Manufacture:   C18 WM
Dimensions Actual:   D00.106 (rim)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.189 D00.126 (foot) D00.183 (body)
Period:   Middle Corinthian (595/590-570)
Chronology:   Middle Corinthian, Context Middle Corinthian
Area:   Julian Basilica
Context:   NB79 P463
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Corinth VII.1 N332
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Weinberg, Corinth 7:1, 1943
Monument: Julian Basilica
Image: bw 1312
Image: bw 2254
Image: bw 5112
Basket: NB79 P463