| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 230 | |
| Title: | SMALL PLAIN WARE OINOCHOE | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 230 | |
| Description: | Small oinochoe with false ring foot set off by grove, globular body taping to flaring rim with flaring trefoil rim in which lobes are only slightly indented. Attachment for veritcal strap handle. A row of holes around lower part of body with thin groove running through them. One hole higher than the rest. This hole and the one to the left show signs of chipping at edges. Rest quite smooth. Benson (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 353) suggests that this was a strainer for liquids which were meant to settle before reaching the height of the holes and dripping out. May have been used as a thymiaterion or similar instead? | |
| Decoration: | Groove just above base. Incised line around widest part of body with 10 holes bored into or just above it. | |
| Material: | Fine pink to reddish yellow clay with few medium white inclusions and rare voids | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) to 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Ten joining frgts preserve 90% of body and 70% of base. Two small pieces of rim missing. Handle missing. RIP. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Chronology: | Late 5th c. B.C. ? (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 353) | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB114 P139 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, Deposit 8. | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 353, cat. 2208 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: bw 3548 Image: bw 1966 108 29 Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 72 (pp. 132 - 133) |
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