Corinth Object: CP 1657
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 1657
Title:   ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE VOLUTE KRATER
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   1657
Description:   A single fragment from the lower part of the neck of a volute-krater.
Decoration:   A quadriga to right. A draped woman, facing left, stands alongside the chariot horses. She wears a fillet, and her mantle is pulled over her head. Red: woman's fillet, tail of one horse, manes of two horses, breast band of right trace horse; white: female flesh.
Material:   Fine reddish yellow clay.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., broken all around.
Manufacture:   C18 WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.052, W. 0.054.
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   520-500 B.C.
Provenance:   Attica
Bibliography:   Brownlee, Hesperia 58.4, 1989, cat. 56.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 58:4, 1989
Image: bw 1965 114 07