Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1950 192a | |
Title: | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KRATER | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1950 | |
Object Number: | 192 | |
Object Suffix: | a | |
Old Number: | C-1950-5G (lapsed) | |
Related Objects: | C-1950-192B | |
Description: | Column krater with convex body turning into nearly horizontal shoulder. | |
Decoration: | Parts of two friezes in black glaze fired partly red where thinner. Red line at base of neck, below, fr. A: parts of 3 padded dancers: lt. to rt., extended hand of one, head, torso, buttocks of second with rt. arm bent down and back, in profile to lt.; bearded, hair gathered in mass at back of neck; purple on garment; of third lower legs, facing rt., legs together. Purple ground line, no filling ornament. Below, fr. B: part of a goat's (?) back. Red glaze on interior. | |
Material: | Fine pinkish-buff clay with few fine oblong voids. | |
Munsell Color: | Slightly lighter than 5YR 7/6 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Six joining body frgts., broken all around, preserving part of body and shoulder. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | K00.131 W00.126 | |
Period: | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | |
Area: | South Stoa | |
Context: | NB203 P86 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: South Stoa Basket: NB203 P86 Notebook Page: NB 203, spread 77 (pp. 89 - 90) |