Corinth Object: C 1936 2482
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 2482
Title:   MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KRATER
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   2482
Old Number:   C-1936-1142E (lapsed)
Description:   Column krater with convex shoulder, turning in horizontally to base of vertical neck.
Decoration:   On body, part of a mounted hoplite wit helmet and shield and carrying two spears, to lt. Crest rendered by double incised lines, row of alternating V's at base of crest. Shield blazon: whirligig, surrounded by glazed band containing incised rhomboi. To left of spears another glaze line with incised wavy line. Behind hoplite bird flying to lt. Above, glaze band; neck black. Interior glazed reddish-brown.
Writing:   Black-figure
Material:   Fine pinkish-tan clay with at least one large white inclusion, a few small voids.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/8
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving shoulder and neck, broken all edges.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   T00.007
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.080 W00.082
Period:   Middle Corinthian (595/590-570)
Area:   Forum south
Context:   NB160 P67
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south
Basket: NB160 P67
Notebook Page: NB 160, spread 40 (pp. 66 - 67)