Corinth Object: KP 717
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 717
Title:   MIDDLE CORINTHIAN CONVEX PYXIS
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   717
Description:   wide body with vert. slightly convex sides curving in toward bottom. Small mouth with lower vert. rim. Nearly horiz. Shoulder forming angle with sides. Vert. loop handles. High, heavy ringfoot with flat resting surface.
Decoration:   Black paint, nearly all gone, leaving gray stain and traces of applied-purple paint. Rim black on exterior, with purple band at base. Petals on shoulder, alternately black and applied purple. Handles probably black. Interior unpainted. Frieze purple lines (a) rear of ruminant, 1., man r. touching horns of goat, 1. panther, (b) ruminant 1. with bird, r., underneath and head of bird, r., under neck. Broad black band on lower body; long, thin rays, slightly curved, above foot. Outer edge of foot black. Concentric rings on bottom. Male figure has incised fillet, double lines at neck, wristes, and high on thighs. Traces of purple on neck of panther and one goat. F o of blobs, some fitted, some with short incised lines diagonally or in lengthwise row, and spots
Material:   grayish buff clay with thick slip of same, partly flaked off
Munsell Color:   10YR 7/3
Condition:   Fragment. preserved: part of lip, shoulder and side, and about half of foot, and fragments of body
Dimensions Preserved:   H 0.119
Dimensions Restored:   D 0.20
Period:   Middle Corinthian (595/590-570)
Chronology:   according to Benson
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter.
Bibliography:   Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 710, p. 140
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984
Image: bw 6498
Notebook Page: NB 132bis, spread 16 (pp. 21 - 22)