| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1939 279a | |
| Title: | ATTIC RED-FIGURE COLUMN KRATER | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1939 | |
| Object Number: | 279 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | C 1939 279B | |
| Description: | Fragments of ovoid body, with maximum diameter above median, of a large, open vessel. | |
| Decoration: | a: Rays below black band bordered by red, reserved line for groundline. At left break, ivy border. Nude male moving right, wearing himation shawlwise, playing aulos. Frontal eye and puffing cheeks. Wearing a wreath in added white. A second nude male, preserved from neck down, with frontal torso, right arm extended to left with chlamys hanging down, walking stick overlapping body, presumably held in left hand. b: Opposite side of vase. Ivy border preserved at left break. Rear flank of a horse to right, drapery of a rider or groom at right break. c: Undecorated rim fragment. | |
| Writing: | dipinto. Dipinti in several areas. Behind flute player | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Eleven joining body frgts., and two non-joining frgts. Interior and exterior surfaces badly abraded with much spalling. | |
| Manufacture: | C20 WM | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | early 5th c. B.C. | |
| Area: | Museum west | |
| Context: | NB184 P83 | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Bibliography: | Weinberg, AJA 43, 1939, fig. 6., p. 596. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Museum west Image: bw 6012 Basket: NB184 P83 |
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