Corinth Object: KP 754
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 754
Title:   CONCAVE-SIDED PYXIS BY THE KP 34 WORKSHOP
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   754
Description:   Low shape with strongly concave walls.
Decoration:   Corinthian black-figure style. Animal frieze, bordere below by two horizontal lines. Short rays at bottom. Undersurface reserved. Interior: broad glazed band on side, two on bottom. Animal frieze: goat to r., feline to r., goat to r., felin to l. Filling ornaments: spoked rosettes, rosettes with incised rosettes, lotiform rosettes, blob with incised parallel lines, blobs.
Material:   Pale buff clay with rare rounded inclusions, rare rounded voids.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Missing parts. Five joining fragments. Bottom and part of lower body preserved.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Aryballos deposit.
Bibliography:   Corinth 15.3, 389; Benson 1983
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 8072
Image: bw 1965 089 25
Image: bw 1965 089 26