Corinth Object: CP 509
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 509
Title:   CORINTHIAN STEMLESS CUP WITH STAMPED DECORATION
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   509
Description:   Cup with vertical ring foot with double torus profile, narrow resting surface, rounded undersurface. Shallow necking, shallow echinoid body, oblique fine lip. Stump of one horizontal handle, round in section, and tilted.
Decoration:   Undersurface reserved with central black dot, 2 dilute glaze rings, broad black band, miltos ring; resting surface reserved. Remainder of exterior black glazed. Interior: ring of 4 unlinked palmettes; in center, reserved circle with black ring; outer circumference groove, then 2 scraped rings; remainder black glazed.
Material:   Fine yellow-buff clay.
Munsell Color:   Slightly redder than 2.5Y 7/4
Condition:   Complete profile. Three joining fr., 9/10 foot, over half body to lip, stumps of one handle.
Manufacture:   C23 C29
Dimensions Actual:   H00.025 D00.025 (foot) D00.109 (lip)
Period:   4th c. B.C.
Chronology:   4th c. B.C.
Context:   , Provenance unknown
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 2308
Image: bw 2309
Basket: , Provenance unknown