Corinth Object: C 1939 172
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1939 172
Title:   ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE AMPHORA
Category Code:   C
Year:   1939
Object Number:   172
Description:   Type B belly amphora with ovoid body and narrowing foot, stumps for round handles.
Decoration:   Panel on shoulder with 3 draped figures. Figure at left facing right toward two figures facing left holding drinking horns in right hands. Ivy pattern on both vertical sides of panel; rays above foot. Red: drapery, alternating ivy leaves, double lines below panel and above rays.
Material:   Fine reddish yellow clay.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., mended from many pieces; broken all around. One large fragment of one side of vase with two handle stumps.
Manufacture:   C18 WM
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   560-550 B.C.
Area:   Museum west
Context:   NB184 P114
Provenance:   Attica
Bibliography:   Brownlee, Hesperia 56.1, 1987, p. 76.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 56:1, 1987a
Monument: Museum west
Image: bw 6525
Basket: NB184 P114