Corinth Object: KP 1234
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 1234
Title:   EARLY PROTOCORINTHIAN BROAD-BOTTOM OINOCHOE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   1234
Description:   Very low ring base with narrow resting surface and very shallow undersurface. Possibly a small tooled groove at join of base to body. Flaring walls. Clay fired pink on surface but light on interior
Decoration:   Slip flaking. Base undersurface painted reddish brown and has flaked away. Exterior: foot painted reddish brown; tall triangular rays (0.036 m high) emanating from base; above 4 bands
Material:   clay
Munsell Color:   surface color: 7.5 YR 8/3 (pink); core 2.5 Y 8/3 (pale yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. 3 joining fragments of base, nearly half of circumfrence
Dimensions Actual:   Th. 0.006
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.048;
Dimensions Restored:   Projected diam. Foot c. 0.150
Period:   Protocorinthian (720-630)
Chronology:   Early Protocorinthian
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter Northwest Angle Deposit
Bibliography:   Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 203, p. 50
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984
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