Corinth Object: CP 3261
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 3261
Title:   MIDDLE CORINTHIAN OLPE OF ATTIC TYPE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   3261
Description:   Olpe with very steep shoulder curving into wide, flaring neck.
Decoration:   On shoulder, top of figured frieze, preserving top of man's head, tied with purple fillet; incised hair. Purple band, then row of double-centered rosettes, parts of four preserved, with alternating petals purple and black; purple band, neck black glazed. Interior glazed but possibly ending below lower break.
Material:   Fine buff clay with smooth fracture.
Munsell Color:   Somewhat yellower than 7.5YR 7/4
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving top of body, neck;
Manufacture:   18 Cor. BF
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.055 W00.059
Period:   Middle Corinthian (595/590-570)
Chronology:   ca. 575 B.C. (Brownlee)
Area:   Shear Excavations
Context:   Shear Excavations, Possibly from tray of sherds from Shear Exc. store
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Shear Excavations
Basket: Shear Excavations, Possibly from tray of sherds from Shear Exc. store