| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 89 | |
| Title: | GLOBULAR PYXIS | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 89 | |
| Description: | Vertical ring foot with broad resting surface, slanting inward to flat undersurface. Globular body. Horizontal rim, slanting slightly inward. | |
| Decoration: | Undersurface painted with two concentric circles around center, one around inside of resting surface. Decoration on body painted in alternating registers, tongues, then two circular bands with added purple glaze. Central register band of dots, followed by two purple bands, then tongues hanging from black line. Purple band around edge of body extending along undersurface of rim. Dots around exterior edge of rim, tongues on top of rim. Interior solidly washed with glaze. | |
| Material: | Fine very pale brown clay, | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 7/4 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Many joining frgts., preserving complete profile; missing three small pieces of body, chips in rim. RIP. Glaze well-preserved. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.064 D00.054 (base) D00.088 (body) D00.076 (rim) | |
| Period: | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | |
| Chronology: | 1st quarter 6th c. B.C. | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB108 P15 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Well I. | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1589 p. 291 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984 Monument: Potters' Quarter Images (5) Basket: NB108 P15 |
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