| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 114 | |
| Title: | CONCAVE-SIDED PYXIS BY THE CORINTH PYXIS PAINTER | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 114 | |
| Description: | Strongly convex sides, reflex handles. | |
| Decoration: | Corinthian black-figure style. Painted line just below lip; Z-meander at rim; frieze bordered by double band above and below; short rays at bottom. Horizontal glazed line on handles. Undersurfaced reserved with a shallow groove near adge. Animal frieze: panther to r., goat to l., lion to r., bull to l., swan to r. (under one handle). Filling ornaments: spoked rosettes, irregular rosettes with crosses or double line crossed by a line, spots. Added purple paint: neck, alternated ribs, belly, haunch of bull; central wing of swan. Careful and neat drawing. | |
| Material: | Hard fired buff clay. Good black paint and applied purple paint. | |
| Munsell Color: | from 10 YR 8/3 to 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Missing few small fragments from sides and bottom (restored) | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Period: | Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590) | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Well I. | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth 15.3, 386; Benson 1983 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Images (5) Notebook Page: NB 108, spread 55 (pp. 100 - 101) |
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