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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | T 2412 | | Title: | | LATE GEOMETRIC AMPHORA | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | T | | Object Number: | | 2412 | | Old Number: | | P 1388, G 1465 | | Description: | | Amphora with flaring ring foot, ovoid body, high straight neck ending in a raised moulding below projecting lip which is slightly convex on upper face and slanted outward. Double-arched horizontal rolled handles on lower part of shoulder. | | Decoration: | | Foot and body glazed to just below handle zone, with 2 evenly spaced, sets of triple reserved lines 5 bands below handle zone. Zone divided on each side into two panels by sets of 7 verticals. A long-necked water-bird facing lt. in one, rt. in other. Filling ornament of chevron columns, dot-rosettes, dots in sets of four, and blob or star rosettes. Beside handle attachments columns of dots with blob rosettes above; a double curved line outlines each handle attachment. Under the handles sets of 7 parallel vertical zigzags; on their faces ladder pattern. Five bands above the handle zone; the upper shoulder glazed to its junction with the neck. A zone of parallel vertical zigzags bordered above and below by triple bands, around lower part of neck. Around center a hatched maeander to lt. At one point a section of plain key pattern where not enough room for a maeander. Four bands below the moulded rim, which is glazed solidly. Unglazed inside. | | Material: | | Buff Corinthian clay with creamy surface; thick rather dull black glaze. | | Condition: | | Complete or intact. Many joining fragments, complete except for fragments esp. at shoulder. | | Dimensions Actual: | | H. 0.38, Diam. max. 0.203 | | Bibliography: | | Corinth XIII, pl. 8, gr. 18-1; Benson, EC Workshop, p. 13, c-37-1 shop | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Blegen, et al. Corinth 13, 1964
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