| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 1383 | |
| Title: | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN GLOBULAR PYXIS: WASTER | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 1383 | |
| Description: | Globular pyxis with squat globular body, curving in to flat rim, downsloping slightly toward interior, and slightly undercut on exterior. Two joining fragments refired separately as wasters, each pierced with hole D00.011 m. in upper body for pulling in and out of kiln. One frgt. buff, joining frgt. gray. | |
| Decoration: | Irregularly painted with broad horizontal stripes of glaze fired red to red-black; exterior: 3 stripes on body, 1 on top of rim; interior: 3 stripes.looks as if each frgt. painted separately, glaze overlapping some breaks; | |
| Material: | Fine clay with rare fine white inclusions, half of which fired pinkish buff, half gray. | |
| Munsell Color: | Buff: grayer than 10YR 7/6; gray: 10YR 6/2 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining frgts., preserving upper half body to rim, 1/4 circumference; part of lip chipped away. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.062 W00.106 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.085-00.09 (rim) | |
| Period: | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | |
| Chronology: | Middle Corinthian, 590-70 B.C. | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB114 P174 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1393, p. 251 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984 Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: bw 6458 Basket: NB114 P174 |
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