| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 1430 | |
| Title: | MENDED CORINTHIAN ALABASTRON | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 1430 | |
| Description: | Alabastron with cylindrical neck, slightly flaring toward bottom. Concave disk, small vertical handle between disk and neck with small circular hole. | |
| Decoration: | Tongue shape motif in black glaze on the neck; paint on the fractures (one seems to be a mend in antiquity) | |
| Material: | clay | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5 Y 8/2 (pale yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving 3/4 of disk; handle and neck. Possibly mended in antiquity with slip? | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Diam. 0.028; Th. 0.005 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.022; | |
| Period: | Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590) | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Well I. | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1377 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984 Image: bw 6412 Image: bw 6457 |
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