| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 2587 | |
| Title: | ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE COLUMN KRATER | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 2587 | |
| Description: | Convex shoulder of a krater broken at juncture to neck. | |
| Decoration: | On the shoulder, a winged creature to left. Two black dots at the left edge of the fragment are perhaps best identified as the ears of the creature, so that it is more likely a griffin-bird than a siren or sphinx, as D. A. Amyx (Corinth inventory book) has also noted. Red: wing covert. | |
| 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. 0.043, W. 0.081. | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | 585-575 B.C. | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Bibliography: | Brownlee, Hesperia 56.1, 1987, cat. 4. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Brownlee, Hesperia 56:1, 1987a Image: bw 8178 |
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