| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 1249 | |
| Title: | GEOMETRIC CLOSED SHAPE (AMPHORA?) | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 1249 | |
| Description: | Thick wall fragment; very subtle curve. Fired grey at core. Very smooth, waxy feeling surface | |
| Decoration: | Dark brown paint. Motif of four concentric diamonds: innermost, hatched; outside reserved; next, filled with diagonal parallel strokes; last, reserved. A couple of short parallel strokes from fill to beside diamond | |
| Material: | clay | |
| Munsell Color: | 10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single body sherd, large vessel (undecorated on interior--closed vessel?). Benson calls this a krater (see Corinth XV. III p. 258 n. 1433) | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.007 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.049; L. 0.041 | |
| Period: | Geometric (900/875-720) | |
| Chronology: | ? | |
| Provenance: | Non-Corinthian | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter Northwest Angle Deposit | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1433, p. 258 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984 Image: bw 7980 Image: bw 1965 071 25 |
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