| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 1687 | |
| Title: | CORINTHIAN RED-FIGURE SQUAT LEKYTHOS | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 1687 | |
| Decoration: | No relief contour. Relief line for interior markings; reserve contour for heads. Very good black glaze. Faded applied white for wreaths. Buff-red slip. Shoulder and beginning of neck from high shoulder squat lekythos; ridge between neck and shoulder. Head and shoulders of a woman facing left, chest frontal. She wears a chiton and there are traces of triple spiked wreath on her head. In front of her the top of alabastron or lekythos and top of another head with wreath preserved. Behind her, extended hand and upper leg of another woman preserved. Reserved band below the neck ridge, and on the neck itself tongues separated by fine relief lines dribbling into a continuous black glze along the ridge. | |
| Material: | Soft buff cream pink clay, slightly micaceous | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Shoulder and beginning of neck. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.023, W. 0.064, TH. 0.004 | |
| Area: | Unknown | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Unknown | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 52(2), p.150; Corinth VII.4, p.63, no.139 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Unknown Image: bw 1965 024 25 |
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