| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1933 456 | |
| Title: | ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE SIANA CUP | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1933 | |
| Object Number: | 456 | |
| Description: | A single fragment preserving part of the lip and handle zone of a double-decker Siana cup with convex body and convave rim. | |
| Decoration: | On the interior, there is a reserved line just inside the lip, whose top edge is not preserved. On the exterior, the lip is decorated with a floral ornament consisting of detached lotuses and buds. A black line separates the lip and the handle zone. In the handle zone, on a black ground line, a swan with out-stretched wings faces right and a ram moves left. The lower body of the cup is black. Red: core of lotus, neck of ram, wing bars of swan, and two dots on right wing of swan. White: contour of lotus bud, stripes flanking wing bars of swan, and horn and belly stripe of ram. Near the Painter of Tubingen 2236. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of body; broken all around. | |
| Manufacture: | C18 WM | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | 550-540 B.C. | |
| Area: | Forum southeast South Stoa | |
| Context: | NB135 P143 | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Bibliography: | Brownlee, Hesperia 56.1, 1987, cat. 31. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 56:1, 1987a Monument: Forum southeast South Stoa Image: bw 1965 114 08 Basket: NB135 P143 |
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