Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KP 2075 | |
Title: | EARLY PROTOCORINTHIAN KRATER | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | KP | |
Object Number: | 2075 | |
Description: | Round shoulder with rim inset slightly set at sharp angle from shoulder. Lip with rounded inner edge and tapered upper edge | |
Decoration: | Slip fugitive (faint ghosts of what was probably dark brown paint). Exterior: below, probably horizontal bands; handle zone, register with panels: vertical lines; zigzag between two horizontal rows of sigmas; vertical sigmas. Handles with 2 bands with a pattern of squiggly lines between. Rim painted solid dark color (lip reserved?). Interior probably slipped but fugitive. | |
Material: | clay | |
Munsell Color: | 2.5 Y 8/2 (pale yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. 2 nonjoining frags mended from multiple pieces. Preserves c. 1/2 rim, upper body, including 1 handle | |
Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.005 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.038 | |
Dimensions Restored: | Diam. 0.16-7 | |
Period: | Protocorinthian (720-630) | |
Chronology: | Early Protocorinthian | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. | |
Bibliography: | Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 154, p. 42 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984 Image: bw 6287 |