| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 131 | |
| Title: | POWDER PYXIS, CONVENTIONALIZING STYLE | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 131 | |
| Description: | Pyxis with flat bottom projecting beyond body with rounded edge, cylindrical body. Lid: cylindrical body with rounded border at lower edge, projecting moulding at juncture to top; top flat with small flat-topped boss in center, convex. | |
| Decoration: | Pyxis: black on edge of base, edge of rim; black band around center of sides. Lid: top: boss black, red band between boss and raised band with black spots, black wreath with opposed slanting leaves, bordered inside by black line, outside by two black lines and red band; edge moulding black; sides of lid: row of alternating groups of five vertical wavy lines and vertical oblongs with wavy edges, alternately black and red, between red, black lines; lower moulded border red. | |
| Material: | Hard light brown clay. | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete. | |
| Manufacture: | C22 WM. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.048 (lid) H00.044 (pyxis) D00.067 (pyxis bottom) | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | context third quarter 5th c. B.C. | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB123 P135 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Circular stele shrine. | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3 cat. 1090, p. 203; Corinth VII.5, p.91, no.80 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984 Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: bw 3394 Basket: NB123 P135 Notebook Page: NB 123, spread 73 (pp. 134 - 135) |
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