| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 1246 | |
| Title: | LATE GEOMETRIC/ EARLY PROTOCORINTHIAN KRATER | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 1246 | |
| Description: | Ovoid body, with beginning of everted rim | |
| Decoration: | Exterior: 5 narrowly spaced horizontal bands; above, band with panels/metopes alternating with bands of 3 vertical lines. Metope motifs include: a star, butterfly, and concentric circles with a lozenge (incised with a cross); above, 4 horizontal bands. Interior, glaze (fired red) but mostly fugitive | |
| Material: | clay | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface 2.5 Y 8/3 (pale yellow); fabric 5 YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Mended from 3 joining fragments, shoulder fragment of large open vessel with beginning of rim | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.006 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.117; L. 0.086 | |
| Period: | Late Geometric (750-720) | |
| Chronology: | Transitional (Late Geometric/ Early Protocorinthian) | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter, Northwest Angle Deposit | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 56, p. 26 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984 Image: bw 6269 |
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