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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KV 818 | | Title: | | MINIATURE PYXIS | | Category: | | Pottery | | Category Code: | | KV | | Object Number: | | 818 | | Description: | | Miniature 'sugar-bowl' or convex pyxis with high flaring foot with flat underside, spherical body, and verical rim with rounded lip. One round loop handle attached at widest point of body at 45 degree angle to vertical. Attachments for a second preserved. | | Decoration: | | String marks on base. Irregular splotches of black-brown on one side. | | Material: | | Fine, very pale brown clay with rare medium white inclusions and rare voids | | Munsell Color: | | 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | | Condition: | | Complete profile. Missing one handle and small part of base. Glaze flaking. Some spalling. | | Manufacture: | | WM | | Period: | | Classical | | Chronology: | | 2nd half of the 5th c. or later (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 212). | | Area: | | Potters' Quarter | | Context: | | NB114 P76 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, Deposit 8 (?). | | Bibliography: | | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 319, cat. 1813 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Potters' Quarter
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 44 (pp. 76 - 77)
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