Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KP 154 | |
Title: | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN TREFOIL OINOCHOE | |
OINOCHOE | ||
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | KP | |
Object Number: | 154 | |
Related Objects: | KP-154B | |
Description: | Oinochoe with slightly flaring ring foot, flat resting and undersurface. Tall ovoid body with max. diam. (H. 0.126-0.13), rounded shoulder; tall cylindrical neck with projecting ring at mid height, wide flaring trefoil rim. Vertical strap handle from shoulder to lip. | |
Decoration: | Foot and lower fourth of body black glazed; rest reserved with 3 broad bands, 3 circumference lines and 3rd broad band; frieze on shoulder with hybrid animals: double snake r., ending in blunt tail (phallos?) with snake head with forked tongue and bearded male head, and with short legs; forepart of hedgehog left, with spines on back and ending in curled-under phallos, with curled tail attached to back; animal r. with griifin head, upper human body with extended arms, wings of flying bird and ending in foot-like object r. on ground line, with two blunt protuberances above; combination of running rabbit l. with sickle wing, and dolphin right; lower body of ithyphallic crouching figure right with feline forepaws in crouching position and reverted head of goat. Lower half of neck reserved; ring and upper half black glazed, continuing onto rim, handle back. | |
Mythology: | Monsters | |
Material: | Fine pale pinkish buff clay with rare white inclusions, voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 6/6 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Many joining frgts., preserving complete profile; 3/4 foot, 1/2 lower half of body, most of upper half with shoulder, all of neck, half rim, upper half of handle; glaze partly worn. RIP. | |
Manufacture: | C18 WM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.307 D00.13 (foot) D00.27 (max) D00.083 (neck) | |
Period: | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | Potters' Quarter, Deposit at northwest angle of city wall | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Deposit at NW angle of CW | |
Bibliography: | Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 721 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984 Monument: Potters' Quarter Basket: Potters' Quarter, Deposit at northwest angle of city wall |