Corinth Object: KP 815
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 815
Title:   SMALL OINOCHOE LID
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   815
Description:   Small trefoil oinochoe lid with round bottom, slightly irregular flaring walls and rounded lip. Mushroom-shaped. Tall, cylindrical knob attached to center of interior.
Decoration:   Traces of black slip over all, poorly preserved and now light brown.
Material:   Fine, pale yellow soft clay with few, rounded reddish inclusions and rare small voids
Munsell Color:   5Y 8/2 pale yellow
Condition:   Complete or intact. Two joining frgts, complete except for two small chips. Slip flaking.
Manufacture:   HM
Weight Description:   0.006
Weight:   0.006
Period:   Classical
Chronology:   Late 5th-4th c. BC (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 211)
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   NB114 P69
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, East Room, Deposit 5.
Bibliography:   Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1140
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Potters' Quarter
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 39 (pp. 68 - 69)