| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 2480 | |
| Title: | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN PYXIS BASE | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 2480 | |
| Description: | Convex sides and wide base with flaring ring foot which has a broad flat resting surface. | |
| Decoration: | Silhouette style. Black paint, brown where dilute. On body, narrow frieze of small female figures in silhouette. Figure, 1., five figures, r. or 1. (heads gone)-first three holding hands; seven figures, 1., holding hands, and uncertain rectangular object. Thick dotted f.o. Alternate-dot band below frieze and short vert. lines, rising from circumf. Line, above foot. Outers and inner edges of foot black. Five concentric rings on bottom. Interior unpainted. | |
| Material: | Pale buff clay | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/2 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Base with portion of lower body | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D 0.04 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H 0.023 | |
| Period: | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | |
| Chronology: | according to Benson | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1304, p. 236 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984 Image: bw 6446 Image: bw 1965 074 28 |
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