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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KV 1069 | | Title: | | MINIATURE CUP | | Category: | | Pottery | | Category Code: | | KV | | Object Number: | | 1069 | | Description: | | Miniature profiled cup with flaring disc foot, convex lower walls and straight, flaring upper walls, with tapered lip. One vertical strap handle attached at lip and rise slightly above it. Very thin walls. | | Decoration: | | String marks on base. Dipped in black glaze to roughly where walls change direction (ca. 3/4 of the way down the cup). Similar to KV 823. | | Material: | | Fine, pale brown clay with rare fine inclusions and rare fine voids | | Munsell Color: | | 2.5Y 8/2 (pale brown) | | Condition: | | Complete profile. Four joining frgts preserving all of vessel except one small piece of rim and two chips from base. Glaze fugitive. | | Manufacture: | | WM | | Period: | | Classical | | Chronology: | | 2nd half of the 5th c. B.C. or later (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 212) | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, Deposit 8. | | Bibliography: | | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 313, cat. 1734 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece |
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