| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KV 239 | |
| Title: | MINIATURE OINOCHOE | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KV | |
| Object Number: | 239 | |
| Description: | Miniature oinochoe with disc foot with flat underside, ovoid body with max. d. below median, wide neck, flaring trefoil rim with rounded lip; Highswung oval handle (mostly missing), attached at rim and just above widest part of body. | |
| Decoration: | String marks on underside of foot. Small hole pushed into body just above foot, no exit. Black glaze all over. | |
| Material: | Very fine pale yellow clay with rare very fine inclusions and rare fine voids | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5Y 8/2 (white) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Nearly complete, missing majority of handle. Black glaze fugitive and flaking | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Middle or 3rd quarter of the 4th century (Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1,6 p. 43) | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB114 P60 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, East Room, Deposit 6. (N.B. Benson confused deposits 5 and 6 and associated this vessel with depost 5, but context and the notebooks indicate that this must be from Deposit 6. --K. Harrington, 30/6/2021) | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1841 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter |
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