| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1933 151 | |
| Title: | ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE PYXIS LID | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1933 | |
| Object Number: | 151 | |
| Description: | Lid with low, sloping surface, short vertical rim, stump of central knob. | |
| Decoration: | a: Herakles or Theseus (draped upper body preserved) to right pulls on ropes he has caught around bull (head, shoulders, forelegs, and tail preserved), which moves to left. To right, club and drapery hang in tree. Second Herakles/Theseus wearing short garment and holding ropes moves to right. Back of his animal adversary preserved at break. On underside of lid (not glazed), reddish circle from misfiring and two small stamped impressions, one of human head, other unidentifiable. Flange of lid black, except for resting surface and part of vertical edge. Knob (now broken ofl) originally black, encircled by black band and line. b: Legs(?) and tail of animal to left. Manner of the Haimon Painter. | |
| Mythology: | Labors of Herakles or Deeds of Theseus | |
| Attributes: | club?, chlamys hanging on tree | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two non-joining frgts., A: mended from two pieces, nearly one half circumference, missing knob. B: single rim fragment. | |
| Manufacture: | C18 WM | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Second quarter of the 5th c. B.C. | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB140 P8 | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Bibliography: | Brownlee, Hesperia 64.3, 1995, cat. 234. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 64:3, 1995 Monument: Forum southwest Image: bw 1965 114 28 Image: bw 1966 047 12 Basket: NB140 P8 Notebook Page: NB 140, spread 10 (pp. 8 - 9) |
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