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 |