Corinth Object: CP 273
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 273
Title:   LATE HELLADIC IIIC KYLIX
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   273
Description:   Kylix. Slightly hollowed foot, shallow conical body, vertical lip. Two thin vertical strap handles from rim to lower part of body. FS 275
Decoration:   Exterior is slipped and painted. One horizontal band at edge of foot, one near top of stem, one band at bottom of body where it meets the stem and one just below rim. Handles painted on top with small reserved triangles where they meet the rim. Interior is slipped and painted, except for reserved rim.
Material:   Fine clay
Munsell Color:   Surface: 10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown) Core: 10 YR 7.5/4 (very pale brown), Paint 7.5 YR 5/6 (storng brown) to black
Condition:   Fragment. 15 fragments preserve 1/2 of base, 1/4 of stem, 1/2 of body, 1/3 of rim, both handles
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. of rim 0.153, Diam. of base 0.065, H. 0.17
Period:   Late Helladic IIIB
Chronology:   Rutter 1974, p. 349 dates to "early in LH IIIC" but MDP has FS 275 in LH IIIC middle
Area:   Korakou
Context:   NB84 B50 P38
    NB84 B56 P46
Findspot Description:   no findspot recorded on vessel; ="cylix black inside, black bands outside" [shore house] in Corinth Pottery Inventory I (CWB), p. 54 no. 65
Bibliography:   Rutter 1974, p. 331 no. 9
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Rutter, The late Helladic IIIB and IIIC ... 1974
Monument: Korakou
Images (5)
Basket: NB84 B50 P38
Basket: NB84 B56 P46