| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | T 1748 | |
| Title: | ALABASTRON | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | T | |
| Object Number: | 1748 | |
| Old Number: | P 944 | |
| Description: | Flattened bottom with small, central depression D. 0.015; elongated body with max. diam. below median, tapering to short, unarticulated neck, broad horizontal outturned rim with undercut lip, in ward sloping upper surface. Pierced vertical lug handle from neck to underside of rim. | |
| Decoration: | On mouth, rings; dots on edge; tongues on neck; rings on bottom. Two friezes of warriors (6 above, 7 below) to rt., with shields but no spears; in field, dot rosettes between friezes, band of scale pattern, purple scales alternating with white-dotted black scales. Amyx: related to Warrior Frieze Painter, Middle Corinthian. | |
| Material: | Fine yellow clay. | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Numerous joining fragments, complete except for 1/3 bottom. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.21, Diam. 0.091 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | Late 1st. quarter or early second quarter 6th. c. (grave). | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XIII, p. 191, n. 172-0; Amyx, CorVP, p. 155. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Blegen, et al. Corinth 13, 1964 Publication: Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the ... 1988 |