Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 436 | |
Title: | ATTIC RED-FIGURE KRATER | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 436 | |
Description: | Upper half of calyx krater with steep, flaring body crowned by outward thickened band, above which heavy rolled rim. Interior glazed. Exterior decorated in red-figure technique. Beneath rim is zone of palmette-lotus chain. Beneath this, figured zone, preserving head, shoulders of bearded male, at left, falling back to right. Wears Corinthian helmet with tall crest, pushed back off his face. Crest decorated with fine crosshatched pattern of relief lines. Wears breastplate and carries shield. Hair worn long with two curls falling over right breast. By the Berlin painter | |
Material: | Attic pinkish buff clay, black glaze | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Mended from many fragments, preserving upper body to rim. Partially RIP. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.285, Diam of rim 0.57, Th 0.0065 | |
Findspot Description: | Under south part of nave of Basilica. May 17, 1902. S.E. Bassett I, p. 78. | |
Bibliography: | AJA XXXIV, 1930, p. 337, fig. 2; Hesperia XXXV, 1966, p310ff.; ARV (2nd Edition) p.205, no. 115; JHS LXX, 1950, p. 27, pl. 9. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Luce, American Journal of Archaeolog34:3... 1930 Images (10) Notebook Page: NB 14, spread 43 (p. 79) |