| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | T 3171a | |
| Title: | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN AMPHORA BY HONOLULU PAINTER | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | T | |
| Object Number: | 3171 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | T-3171B | |
| Description: | Amphora with flaring ring foot, flat resting surface, convex undersurface. Plump ovoid body with max. diam. at ca. 00.10, curving into rounded shoulder, cylindrical neck D00.055, flaring out, then up vertically to tall rim H00.024 with slight convex profile, rounded lip. Two vertical handles, round in section, attached to shoulder, top of neck. For lid, see B. | |
| Decoration: | Glaze brown-black. Foot glazed with R-W-R lines, interior foot glazed, undersurface reserved with 2 concentric glaze rings. Body: narrow band of rays, with vertical zigzag and line interrupting ring; broad glaze band with R-W lines at bottom, top. Animal frieze on upper half body and shoulder: A: 2 confronting cocks, lt.: plain neck with purple dots, incised zigzag on wing bar; rt. same with incised scales on neck; between them double palmette; B: elaborate quadruple lotus with detached "cones" in angles. Incised filling ornament, 2 rossettes by handle. Neck: vertical zigzags. Rim: stripe at base, broad glazed band.Interior, glaze band with purple stripes on interior rim, top of neck. Handles glazed.By Honolulu Painter. | |
| Material: | Fine buff clay with rare fine to coarser voids, white inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slightly yellower than 7.5YR 7/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact. | |
| Manufacture: | C18 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.215 D00.079 (foot) D00.156 (max) D00.087 (rim) | |
| Chronology: | C49 Middle Corinthian (590-70) | |
| Area: | North Cemetery | |
| Context: | NB395 P529 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XIII P173-4 N141-5; AJA 1930 P420 fig. 13; Art Arch 1931 P230 fig. opp. p.225; AA 1931 cols. 245-6, figs. 19-20; Amyx, CorVP. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Blegen, et al. Corinth 13, 1964 Publication: Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the ... 1988 Publication: Shear, American Journal of Archaeolog34:4... 1930b Monument: North Cemetery Image: digital 2012 0681 Image: digital 2012 0682 Basket: NB395 P529 |
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