Corinth Object: KV 827
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KV 827
Title:   SMALL BANDED LEKYTHOS
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KV
Object Number:   827
Description:   Small banded lekythos with flaring foot with concave underside and depressed ovoid body, almost biconical. Similar to an example from Vrysoula (Pemberton 1970, p. 72:89).
Decoration:   Reddish-brown band on foot, another band just below widest circumference, and two thin lines around shoulder.
Material:   Hard, pale clay
Condition:   Missing parts. Missing neck and most of shoulder.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   5th c. B.C.
Chronology:   End of the third to beginning of the fourth quarter of the 5th c. B.C. (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 213, cat. 1142)
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   NB114 P143
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, Deposit 9 (N.B. Benson published this as Deposit 8, but the notebook description on NB 114, p. 142-143 makes it clear that this is Deposit 9).
Bibliography:   Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 213, cat. 1142
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Potters' Quarter
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 77 (pp. 142 - 143)