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 |