Corinth Object: C 1970 53a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1970 53a
Title:   CORINTHIAN RED-FIGURE KRATER
Category Code:   C
Year:   1970
Object Number:   53
Object Suffix:   a
Old Number:   C-1970-53A (number lapsed)
Related Objects:   C 1970 53B C 1970 53 C C1970 53 D C 1970 53 E C 1970 53 H
Description:   Krater.
Decoration:   Lustrous black glaze tending toward brown stickness fired to streaky chocolate toward bottom. Preserves far left of lower body of side A and far right of side B. On side A are feet and lower legs of voluminously draped female running right.
She is wearing light garment that billows around her legs. Behind gher, in a handle zone is lower 2/3 of palmette. Directly to left, is what should standing left, wearing simply drawn himation. Reserved band with egg and dot runs beneath figure zone all around fragment. Relief line varying from light to very heavy for interior markins on side A.
Material:   Pinkish-buff clay. Hard, slightly micaceous.
Condition:   Fragment. A was mended from several sherds. It includes also F. Additional fragments: Sacred Spring West 4, East extension. 1970/05/14, NB 472, p. 96
Area:   Sacred Spring
Context:   NB469 B83 P114
    NB469 B121 P154
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Sacred Spring West. Late 5th early 4th floor fill.
Bibliography:   Corinth VII.4, p.37, no.28
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Sacred Spring