| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 2585 | |
| Title: | ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 2585 | |
| Related Objects: | CP 2583 and CP 2584 may belong to the same vessel. | |
| Description: | Fragment from the body of a small, closed vessel, probably a lekythos. | |
| Decoration: | The head of a figure, probably a siren or sphinx, to right. Rosette in the field. Above the figure's head is a single black line (which has separated in places). At the right edge is a bit of black glaze with two in- cised arcs, which may be part of the tendril of a floral complex or of another figure. Red: figure's face. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken all around. | |
| Manufacture: | C18 WM | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.0347. | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | 590-580 B.C. | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Bibliography: | Brownlee, Hesperia 56.1, 1987, cat. 9. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 56:1, 1987a Image: bw 8179 |
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