Corinth Object: LOT 1972 101:01 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | LOT 1972 101:01 | | Title: | | LATE GEOMETRIC THAPSOS CLASS SKYPHOS (SEE NOTE) | | Category: | | Pottery | | Category Code: | | LOT | | Year: | | 1972 | | Object Number: | | 101 | | Description: | | Thapsos class skyphos with convex upper body curving sharply in to inward-sloping vertical rim with rounded lip. For general form and decoration, cf. Ithaca R1 (GGP, pl. 20:c) and Thapsos 45825 (Pelagatti 1982, pl. 18, fig 2, pl. 19, fig. 2). The riim profile is clsely paralleled by a Thapsos Class skyphos ferom the area of the Ionic Temple at Syracuse (Pelagatti 1982, no. 4, pl. 26). | | Decoration: | | Outside of rim and upper body decorated with five narrow horiztonal glazed bands. Single horizontal reserved band at top inside of rim. Rest of interior solidly glazed. | | Material: | | Greenish buff clay with few very small gray inclusions, minute sparkling inclusions. | | Munsell Color: | | Clay: 2.5Y 8/2; Glaze 5YR 3/4 (brown) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of rim and upper body. | | Period: | | Protocorinthian (720-630) | | Chronology: | | LG or EPC, according to Hesperia 68.1 | | Bibliography: | | Hesperia 1999, Vol. 68.1, p. 99, cat. 96, fig. 31 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece |
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