Corinth Object: T 1714
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   T 1714
Title:   ATTIC KOMAST CUP
Category:   Miscellaneous
Category Code:   T
Object Number:   1714
Old Number:   P-0917
Description:   Cup with narrow flaring ring foot, rounded resting surface from which tapers to center. Deep echinoid body, straight flaring rim with round lip. Two horizontal loop handles, canted, attached to shoulder.
Decoration:   Black glazed over all, except for following reserved areas: resting surface, defined by black line, undersurface with black center; narrow band below handles; handle zone and rim with black stripe just below rim, black on lip, interior of lip reserved and interior of handles.
Material:   Fine light red clay with mica, very rare fine white inclusions. Identified as Attic, but mica makes this questionable.
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 6/6
Condition:   Complete or intact. Originally complete, 2-3 joining frgts. After theft: missing small part of rim where originally broken by handle.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.066 D00.041 (foot) D00.126 (lip)
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   2nd quarter 6th c.
Area:   North Cemetery
Context:   NB391 P453
Provenance:   Attica? East Greece?
Bibliography:   Corinth XIII P199 N199-1; Brijder, Siana Cups I, 1983, K110 P89 Pl. 68a.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Blegen, et al. Corinth 13, 1964
Monument: North Cemetery
Basket: NB391 P453