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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KP 154 | | Title: | | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN TREFOIL OINOCHOE | | | | OINOCHOE | | Category: | | Pottery | | Category Code: | | KP | | Object Number: | | 154 | | Related Objects: | | KP-154B | | Description: | | Oinochoe with slightly flaring ring foot, flat resting and undersurface. Tall ovoid body with max. diam. (H. 0.126-0.13), rounded shoulder; tall cylindrical neck with projecting ring at mid height, wide flaring trefoil rim. Vertical strap handle from shoulder to lip. | | Decoration: | | Foot and lower fourth of body black glazed; rest reserved with 3 broad bands, 3 circumference lines and 3rd broad band; frieze on shoulder with hybrid animals: double snake r., ending in blunt tail (phallos?) with snake head with forked tongue and bearded male head, and with short legs; forepart of hedgehog left, with spines on back and ending in curled-under phallos, with curled tail attached to back; animal r. with griifin head, upper human body with extended arms, wings of flying bird and ending in foot-like object r. on ground line, with two blunt protuberances above; combination of running rabbit l. with sickle wing, and dolphin right; lower body of ithyphallic crouching figure right with feline forepaws in crouching position and reverted head of goat. Lower half of neck reserved; ring and upper half black glazed, continuing onto rim, handle back. | | Mythology: | | Monsters | | Material: | | Fine pale pinkish buff clay with rare white inclusions, voids. | | Munsell Color: | | 7.5YR 6/6 | | Condition: | | Complete profile. Many joining frgts., preserving complete profile; 3/4 foot, 1/2 lower half of body, most of upper half with shoulder, all of neck, half rim, upper half of handle; glaze partly worn. RIP. | | Manufacture: | | C18 WM | | Dimensions Actual: | | H00.307 D00.13 (foot) D00.27 (max) D00.083 (neck) | | Period: | | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | | Area: | | Potters' Quarter | | Context: | | Potters' Quarter, Deposit at northwest angle of city wall | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. Deposit at NW angle of CW | | Bibliography: | | Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 721 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984
Monument: Potters' Quarter
Basket: Potters' Quarter, Deposit at northwest angle of city wall
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