| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 999 | |
| Title: | ATTIC RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 999 | |
| Description: | Cylindrical body sherd of a bell krater with the start of handle at left break. | |
| Decoration: | Exterior with red-figure: torso, buttocks, and lower arms of a man wearing himation draped from left shoulder, facing right, holding stick or stalk over shoulder with left hand and curved staff in right hand; at right, railing of chariot; dilute glaze for interior details. Preliminary sketch lines visible; contour lines in relief around figure and handle juncture. High quality black glaze interior. | |
| Material: | Fine, light red clay with few medium sub-rounded tabular white inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 6/6 (light red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single body sherd of a column krater, broken on all sides, with high gloss black glaze on interior and red-figure on exterior; some scratches and chips on exterior, chips along edges on interior. | |
| Manufacture: | C20 WM | |
| Weight Description: | 0.280 | |
| Weight: | 0.280 | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Second quarter of 5th c. BC. Cf. Boulter and Bentz. | |
| Provenance: | Attica | |
| Findspot Description: | Forum. Northwest Shops. May 17, 1902. SE Bassett, NB 14, p. 77. | |
| Bibliography: | Boulter and Bentz, 1980, Hesperia 49.4, p. 302, no. 28. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 1965 023 29 Notebook Page: NB 14, spread 42 (p. 77) |
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