Corinth Object: KP 1241
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 1241
Title:   EARLY PROTOCORINTHIAN KRATER
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   1241
Description:   Tall broad, ovoid body. Rim mildly everted with squared lip
Decoration:   Exterior, slip fired dark brown: lower body solid slip, 4 narrowly spaced bands above, on shoulder alternating volutes and triangles, 3 bands above; on rim, pattern of reverse S with two horizontal bands above. On lip, groups of perpendicular lines (5). Interior, solid glaze (fired reddish brown)
Material:   clay
Munsell Color:   2.5 Y 8/3 (pale yellow); fired pinkish at core
Condition:   Fragment. Mended from 5 fragment, preserving parts of rim, shoulder and upper body
Dimensions Actual:   Th. 0.006
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.150; L. 0.127
Dimensions Restored:   Projected diam. 0.27
Period:   Protocorinthian (720-630)
Chronology:   Early Protocorinthian
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter, Northwest Angle Deposit
Bibliography:   Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 155, p. 42
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984
Image: bw 6290
Image: bw 1966 113 33