Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KM 1 | |
Title: | BRONZE BOWL WITH INSCRIPTION | |
Category: | Minor Finds | |
Category Code: | KM | |
Object Number: | 1 | |
Description: | Very thin inscribed bronze bowl, flat underneath. Shape similar to Cypriote bowl (Richter, Metrop. Mus. Bronze, cat. 613). Similar inscription under rim in Archaic Boeotion phiale (Eph. Arx. 1896, p. 243, fig. 1). | |
Writing: | inscribed. Single line in Greek, carefully inscribed under rim: tas Aphrodite emi | |
Material: | Bronze. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Several frgts., preserving part of bottom, walls, and rim. Rim edges bent slightly outward. | |
Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
Chronology: | inscription dated by Jeffery between 500-475 BCE; majority of context 2nd half 6th c. to early 5th c. BCE | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB106 P53 | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Aphrodite Deposit, outside southeast corner of Stele Shrine A. | |
Bibliography: | Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, cat. 1, p. 115; Jeffery 1961, Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, cat. 35 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Images (13) Basket: NB106 P53 |