Corinth Object: CP 1662
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 1662
Title:   ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE SKYPHOS
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   1662
Description:   Body fragment of a skyphos.
Decoration:   Naked male dancing right, one arm up, one arm down, head turned to left. At left, part of another figure, facing left and holding large cock; tail feathers overlap dancing man. At right, part of tail (forming a loop beneath upraised arm ofthe dancing man), wing, and body of sphinx, probably originally at handle. White (worn off; applied directly to clay in places): cock. Attributed to the CHC Group.
Material:   Fine reddish yellow clay
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., broken all around. Added white mostly faded.
Manufacture:   C18 WM
Dimensions Actual:   Th. 0.004.
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.0433, W 0.0686.
Period:   5th c. B.C.
Chronology:   ca. 500
Provenance:   Attica
Bibliography:   Brownlee, Hesperia 64.3, 1995, cat. 241.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 64:3, 1995