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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | W 1a | | Title: | | GEOMETRIC | | Category Code: | | W | | Object Number: | | 1 | | Object Suffix: | | a | | Related Objects: | | W 1 B | | Description: | | Pyxis with low flaring ring foot, flat resting surface, flat undersurface. Ovoid body with max. diam. ca. at H. 0.120; at top of shoulder horizontal ledge or flange for lid recessed slightly from surface, W. 0.017, with squared lip. Two horizontal handles round in section, set vertically on shoulder. A pair of holes, D. 0.005, through ledge on either side on axis of handles; between one pair a scratched setting mark. | | Decoration: | | Interior of foot, undersurface reserved. Foot and body glazed in crackled brown-black glaze to H. 0.125. Reserved panel in handle zone to H. 0.175: 3 hooks of hook maeander, hatched, with framing line below and above. Remainder of pyxis glaxed except for ledge, underside of handles and area between handle roots. Thin wash on interior. | | Material: | | Fine light gray-green clay with rare, tiny red, black inclusions. | | Munsell Color: | | 5Y 7.5/2.5 | | Condition: | | Complete profile. Many joining frgts., complete except for small hole in bottom, three holes in shoulder, small part of rim; both handles preserved; g;aze worn. RIP. | | Dimensions Actual: | | H. 0.197, Diam. foot 0.104, Diam. max. 0.243, Diam. shoulder lip 0.142, Diam. mouth 0.105 | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H. with lid 0.267 | | Period: | | Early Geometric (900/875-850/825) | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Bibliography: | | Corinth VII.1, n. 37; GGP, pl. 16D; Benson, EC Workshops, p. 12, C-37-1 shop, sub. | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Weinberg, Corinth 7:1, 1943
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