| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 686 | |
| Title: | PYXIS LID | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 686 | |
| Description: | Lid with slightly inturned tapered lip, concave underside, convex walls leading to central knob formed of two cones joined at peak; knob has conical depression in center. May fit KP-687. | |
| Decoration: | Four wide grooves around knob attachment, one groove at narrowest point of knob. | |
| Material: | Fine very pale brown clay with rare fine and medium inclusions and rare voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10 YR 3/3 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Six joining frgts., preserving 95% of lid, missing part of rim and one small body frgt. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Weight Description: | 0.042 | |
| Weight: | 0.042 | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | ca. 350-325 B.C. (Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, p. 37, p. 105), based on deposit | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB114 P23 | |
| NB114 P231 | ||
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter, Terracotta Factory, Court, Northwest Room, possibly Deposit 3 | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 2200 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: bw 1965 081 09 Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 16 (pp. 22 - 23) |
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