Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 1638 | |
Title: | ROMAN RELIEF WARE BOWL | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 1638 | |
Old Number: | formerly MF-189 | |
Decoration: | Dull light orange glaze. Herakles, advancing to the right, holding club in right hand and bow in left hand, with lion skin draping over left arm, wearing quiver with exposed arrows. Trees at left, and leaf, branch, and large apple on right. After Spitzer's Fig. 6f. | |
Mythology: | Labors of Herakles, Apples of the Hesperides | |
Material: | Soft clay with few white and gray inclusions | |
Munsell Color: | 5 YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. One fragment preserves rim and part of body to base moulding. Glaze is worn on exterior and interior. | |
Manufacture: | C26 MW | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H: 0.069 | |
Dimensions Restored: | Diam.: 0.150 (rim) | |
Bibliography: | Spitzer, Hesperia 1942, p. 171, no. I.3 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Spitzer, Hesperia 11:2, 1942 Notebook Page: NB 80, spread 17 (p. 22) |