Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KP 734 | |
Title: | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN PYXIS LID | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | KP | |
Object Number: | 734 | |
Description: | Badly misfired Middle Corinthian pyxis lid with slighlty conical body, Triangular flange at 0.015m from edge, squared lip. Button knob on short inverted cone. | |
Writing: | Slip fired reddish brown. On knob: 3 concentric circles; around knob 4 more concentric circle. Register with frieze of very cursorily drawn animals in silouhette and fill of dots. Around rim, two more concentric circles | |
Material: | clay | |
Munsell Color: | 5 Y 7/3 (pale yellow) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Mended from 5 frgts. Complete profile. Preserves 1/3 of rim, and body and knob. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.025; Th. 0.004; Diam. 0.049 | |
Period: | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Well I | |
Bibliography: | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1295, p. 235 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984 Notebook Page: NB 123, spread 24 (pp. 37 - 38) |