Corinth Object: KP 551
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 551
Title:   PHIALE, CONVENTIONALIZING STYLE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   551
Description:   Phiale with deep body with convex sides and thin-edged tapered rim. Concave undersurface under omphalos (no longer extant). Two small suspension holes at one side of rim.
Decoration:   Conventionalizing style. Concentric black bands on interior of rim. Band of large stepped triangles between thin lines below, pointing upward. In the interior's bottom, broad black band and series of lines. Narrow black band on exterior of rim.
Material:   Fine light brown clay. Rare small tabular inclusions.
Munsell Color:   10YR 8/3 (light brown)
Condition:   Complete profile. Five frgts., preserving complete profile, joined. Slip in interior worn.
Manufacture:   C22 WM.
Weight Description:   0.037
Weight:   0.037
Period:   5th c. B.C.
Chronology:   1st quarter 5th c. BCE
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   NB106 P36
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Stelai shrine A.
Bibliography:   Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1037; Risser 2001; Corinth VII.5, p.78, no.260
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Potters' Quarter
Image: bw 1965 086 30
Image: bw 1965 088 35
Basket: NB106 P36
Notebook Page: NB 106bis, spread 23 (pp. 36 - 37)