Corinth Object: KP 117
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 117
Title:   BLACK-GLAZED ROUND MOUTH OINOCHOE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   117
Description:   Oinochoe with disk foot, concave undersurface. Squat ovoid body, low sloping shoulder. Short, narrow concave neck flaring to flaring rim with concave profile, round oblique lip. Vertical high-swung strap handle attached to shoulder and rim.
Decoration:   Black glaze over entire vessel except underside of foot reserved, added purple circumference stripe between two thin stripes of added white paint on shoulder.
Material:   Very fine light brown clay, without inclusions
Munsell Color:   10YR 8/4
Condition:   Complete profile. Five joining frgts., preserving complete profile: foot, over 3/4 body, complete rim, complete handle. Black glaze well preserved, added paint mainly lost.
Manufacture:   C23 WM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.075 (to rim) H00.095 (max.) D00.058 (foot) D00.082 (body) D00.043 (rim)
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   late c. B.C.
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   NB106
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Aphrodite Deposit (?).
Bibliography:   Stillwell and Benson 1984; Corinth 15.3 cat. 1201; Corinth VII.5, p.14, ref.34
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984
Monument: Potters' Quarter
Image: bw 3412
Basket: NB106