Corinth Object: KP 1139
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 1139
Title:   EARLY PROTOCORINTHIAN CONICAL OINOCHOE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   1139
Description:   Conical body sherd
Decoration:   (from base to neck), wide band of 22 closely spaced horizontal lines, checkerboard band, 2 horizontal lines; around neck: faint remains of silhouette frieze of bird (eye incised) flanked by flowers with fill of 3 lozenges with interior decoration of cross and dogs inside; 2 swatstikas on either side of bird; remains of black band at attachment with neck. Interior, no decoration.
Material:   clay
Munsell Color:   2.5 Y 8/3 (pale yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Mended from 3 joining pieces of wall; preserves point of beginning of base and neck
Dimensions Actual:   Th. 0.004
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.095; L. 0.065
Period:   Protocorinthian (720-630)
Chronology:   Early Protocorinthian
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter, Northwest Angle Deposit
Bibliography:   Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 190, p. 48-9
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984
Image: bw 6303
Image: bw 1966 113 29