Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KP 699 | |
Title: | CUP | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | KP | |
Object Number: | 699 | |
Description: | Cup with false ring foot and raised disk on underside, flaring convex lower wall, slight carination with concave curve above, and rounded lip; two strap handles attached at rim and mid-body. Similar to KP 691 from the same deposit. | |
Decoration: | Red band on underside of foot, broad red band just above foot and another just below handle attachement, pendant loops or palmettes below rim (very faint); red band just below lip on interior, two broad black bands below; traces of red on handles. | |
Material: | Fine, very pale brown clay with frequent small inclusions and few medium voids | |
Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/4 (very pale brown) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Sixteen joining frgts preserving all of base, most of body, 95% of rim, and both handles; part of body and rim restored in plaster; glaze flaking. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Weight Description: | 0.100 | |
Weight: | 0.100 | |
Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | ca. 350-325 B.C. (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 211) | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB108 P197 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter, Terracotta Factory, Court, Deposit 2 | |
Bibliography: | Corinth VII.5, p.131, no.567 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: bw 1965 088 30 Notebook Page: NB 108, spread 99 (pp. 196 - 197) |