Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KN 162 | |
Title: | PERIRRHANTERION/LOUTERION | |
Category: | Minor Finds | |
Category Code: | KN | |
Object Number: | 162 | |
Description: | Part of the base of a perirrhanterion or louter with square platform surmounted by echinoid foot attached to base with straight wall. Underside hollowed out. | |
Decoration: | Smoothing marks on interior. Foot stamped with line of running spirals and concentric chevrons pointing upward with spiral at tip. Another line of concentric chevrons pointing downward at upper break. | |
Material: | Very coarse pale brown clay with frequent large, angular inclusions and frequent medium voids | |
Munsell Color: | 2.5Y 8/2 (pale brown) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Preserving approximately 25% of base of stand. | |
Manufacture: | MM | |
Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
Chronology: | First half of the 6th c. B.C. (Weinberg 1954, "Corinthian Relief Ware: Pre-Hellenistic Period," p. 128, n. 121), 600-575 B.C. (Iozzo 1987, "Corinthian Basins on High Stands," p. 409) | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB114 P141 | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, Deposit 9. | |
Bibliography: | Iozzo 1987, "Corinthian Basins on High Stands," p. 408, cat. 120 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 76 (pp. 140 - 141) |