Corinth Object C 1947 449

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Corinth Object: C 1947 449

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Object
Name:		C 1947 449
Title:		MOLDED RELIEF BOWL: HOMERIC
Category Code:		C
Year:		1947
Object Number:		449
Description:		Bowl with flat bottom, 2 thin base rings, hemispherical body, offset tall vertical rim flaring to round lip.
Decoration:		Bottom: rosette; band of double guilloche. Body: lt. to rt.: fallen armed warrior, head to rt. then pair of combatants with spears and shields, above lt. figure is MURMIDWN, shield device of rt. figure has rosette; break; hand holding spear with ..]S, seated bearded figure directed 3/4 rt. with head turned back, above .[..].S (Aias ?); male directed rt., head thrown back, lt. hand to head, rt. hand on shield which rests on ground in front, with spear, beside him AXILLEUS; tropaion beside which a shield with gorgoneion, above which: TROPAIONMU.[.]/DONOS, to rt. of which part of a helmet and spear. Rim: double guilloche. Somewhat metallic black glaze over all mottled to red over half bowl.
Writing:		stamp. series of Greek inscriptions written by figured groups: TROPAIONMY.[..]DONOS MURMIDWN .[..].S AXIL/LEUS
Mythology:		Achilles Ajax ? Myrmidons
Material:		Fine light red clay (breaks all covered).
Munsell Color:		5YR 5.5/6
Condition:		Complete profile. Roughly 33 joining frgts., preserving complete profile except center bottom, ca. 3/4 whole. RIP. Kathleen Slane: the fragments of this bowl were found in NB 199 B20-22; only a single rim fragment comes from B8, which is much higher up in the well.
Manufacture:		C26 MW
Dimensions Actual:		H00.094 D00.145 (ca., rim)
Period:		Hellenistic
Chronology:		Hellenistic Context ER
Area:		South Stoa
Context:		NB199 B21 P111
		NB199 B8 P20
		NB199 B20 P59
		NB199 B21 P61
		NB199 B22 P62
Provenance:		Boeotia (GRE)
Bibliography:		Sinn, Die homerischen Bechern, AM 7 Beiheft MB5, p. 77, pl. 5; Hausmann, Hell. Reliefbecher, p. 29; JHS 1947, p. 37, pl. 12A; Weinberg, Hesperia 1949, p. 151, pl. 15; Byvanck, BABerish 29, 1954, 34 ff. N4.43; Edwards 1975, Corinth 7.3, p.165, note 23.
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
References:		Publication: Kent, Corinth 8:3, 1966 Publication: Weinberg, Hesperia 18:1, 1949d Monument: South Stoa Images (17) Baskets (5) Notebook Page: NB 199, spread 34 (pp. 58 - 59) Notebook Page: NB 199, spread 46 (pp. 82 - 83)