Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KV 161 | |
Title: | MINIATURE PYXIS | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | KV | |
Object Number: | 161 | |
Description: | Miniature pyxis with flat bottom, profiled sides, external flange, and slightly incurved rim with rounded lip. | |
Decoration: | Wheel marks on interior. Black lines around lip and flange, two lines around body, filled with line of dots. | |
Material: | Fine, pale brown clay with few small inclusions and few small round voids | |
Munsell Color: | 2.5Y 8/2 (pale brown) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Two joining frgts preserving all of vessel except small sliver of body. Glaze fugitive. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | Likely late 5th c. B.C. (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 212). | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB114 P85 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory. Deposit 8. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 48 (pp. 84 - 85) |