| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KN 6 | |
| Title: | PINAX WITH HERAKLES AND HYDRA | |
| Category: | Minor Finds | |
| Category Code: | KN | |
| Object Number: | 6 | |
| Description: | Pinax plaque with edges slightly thinner than center. Back flat but slightly rough. Wide black borders. | |
| Decoration: | Black glaze, brown where dilute. Upper body of Herakles striding right with outlines of interior details in thin black, partly dilute, and incised where they cross silhouetted parts of design. Arms bent at elbow, right hands hold club. Single body of Hydria over left. Hair to shoulders and jutting beard painted black with incised outlines, also incised except on left shoulder. Lower border double. Painted spirals on breast, one partly incised. Collar bones are painted hooks. Double painted and incised neck and arm borders. Club black with scalloped incised edge. On back, quiver attached by black strap with incised outlines, over left shoulder. Strap attached to incised cleat on quiver, around which are looped other incised straps supporting quiver. Arrows indicated by points separated by incised lines with incised patterns in each section, vertical lines in upper half of quiver, crisscross lines in lower half. Most of quiver purple. Scabbard at left hip hanging from cross strap. Hydra black with narrow borders marked off by incised lines. Central part of body purple with small incised circles. | |
| Material: | Very hard pale yellow clay, polished on surface. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken above and below, preserving complete width. | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB108 P125 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth. | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Well I. | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth 20, 2003; Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1338; Perachora 2, p. 234; Hampe, Fruh Gr. Sagenbilder, p.42, nt. 1; MonPiot 40, 1944, p.32ff.; AJA 1931, p. 22, fig. 22 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Image: bw 2510 Image: bw 8437 Basket: NB108 P125 Notebook Page: NB 108, spread 66 (pp. 126 - 127) |
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