Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KV 540 | |
Title: | MINIATURE SAUCER WITH THREE CUPS | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | KV | |
Object Number: | 540 | |
Description: | Miniature saucer with flat, but irregular base, short convex walls, flaring rim, and round lip. Three small disks of clay adhered to interior to represent cups. Small lug preserved on one side of rim. One side of rim downturned. Notebook line number conflict with KV 1165 (iii-31-29). | |
Decoration: | String marks on base. | |
Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with few small, white inclusions and few meidum round voids | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. One frgt preserving most of vessel except two small portions of rim. Surface very worn. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Weight Description: | 0.014 | |
Weight: | 0.014 | |
Period: | Classical | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB114 P31 | |
Provenance: | Corinth. | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, Court, near Deposit 4. | |
Bibliography: | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1989, p. 333 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: bw 1962 048 28 Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 20 (pp. 30 - 31) |