| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 316 | |
| Title: | THYMIATERION STAND, CONVENTIONALIZING STYLE | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 316 | |
| Description: | Thymiaterion/inscence burner stand. Very high stem, tapering toward top, with four sharp, disk like ridges and two convex bulges. Foot very broad with slightly sloping upper surface and two projecting ridges at edge. Rather irregular hollwo underneath, extending into stem. | |
| Decoration: | Conventionalizing style. Interior of bowl unpainted. Black and red bands of varying widths on stem. On top of foot, continuous meander with narrow hook meander and two black lines below. Two rows of dots on upper ridge of foot. Black band between ridges. | |
| Material: | Fine very pale brown clay. No visible inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/4 (very pale brown). | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Two frgts., preserving intact vessel except for single piece from foot. | |
| Manufacture: | C22 WM. | |
| Weight Description: | 0.223 | |
| Weight: | 0.223 | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB123 P151 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth. | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Circular stele shrine. | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1096; Corinth 20, 2003; Risser 2001; Corinth VII.5, p.162, no.602 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: bw 6433 Image: bw 1965 085 01 Image: bw 1965 086 15 Basket: NB123 P151 Notebook Page: NB 123, spread 81 (pp. 150 - 151) |
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