| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 1155 | |
| Title: | ATTIC RED-FIGURE CALYX KRATER | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 1155 | |
| Description: | Large fragment of a krater. Thin flaring wall below wider flaring and outward thickened rim with narrow moulding below. | |
| Decoration: | Abundant red wash. Head, chest, and right arm of youth, looking left and wearing headband, holding kylix. Relief contour for face, throat, back of neck and bowl of kylix, but not the handle. A band of laurel leaves between two lines above. On interior, reserved line at rim and another at level of the youth's forehead. Style similar to the Kleophon painter. | |
| Attributes: | kylix | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with rare medium subangular white inclusions and few small voids, conchoidal breaks | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. One frgt preserving part of rim and upper body of a large vessel. Some flaking of black gloss. | |
| Manufacture: | C20 WM | |
| Weight Description: | 0.258 | |
| Weight: | 0.258 | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Third quarter of the 5th century B.C. (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 365) | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB114 P81 | |
| Provenance: | Athens | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. South of Terracotta Factory, Deposit 7. | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 2313 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: bw 6465 Image: bw 1966 019 34 Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 46 (pp. 80 - 81) |
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