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 |