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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KN 19 | | Title: | | PINAX WITH HORSEMAN ON EITHER SIDE | | Category: | | Minor Finds | | Category Code: | | KN | | Object Number: | | 19 | | Description: | | Thick pinax with paint and inscribed lines on both sides. Probably MC. The first side seems to show better drawing than the other. The triangular incision on the horses' shouders is probably a second pair of reins. A number of Penteskouphia pinakes seem to have had a rider on both sides. | | Decoration: | | On one side: hoserman, right, with reins in right hand, whip in left. Interior details and much of outline incsed. Hair to shoulders; large knot over forehead above incised fillet. Couble circle for eye with triangles at corners. Double-incised line at lower edge of garment, perhaps single line on arm. Fingers incised. Breast and leg purple. Horse has incised locks, and two lines across shoulder. F.o. part of spoked rosette. Other side: part of horseman, left, with reins in both hands. Single circle for eye. On lower garment border, incsed purple zigzag between lines. Purple on cheek and garment. Horse has incised wavy locks and incised bridle(?) F.o. of large spoked rosette. | | Material: | | Hard, green, overfired clay | | Condition: | | Fragment. Both sides preserved without corners or edges. Black paint partly flaked off leaving green-gray stain. Thick applied-purple paint fired nearly black, traces of purple on breast and leg. | | Provenance: | | Corinth. | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. Well I. | | Bibliography: | | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1336 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Image: bw 2511
Image: digital 2018 0702
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