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Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | T 2713 | Title: | | LATE GEOMETRIC KRATER | Category: | | Miscellaneous | Category Code: | | T | Object Number: | | 2713 | Description: | | Krater with slightly flaring ring foot and short vertical rim; composite handles. Foot and lower body glazed, reserved band half-way. Above, bands to handle zone. | Decoration: | | Decoration of handle zone same on both faces: at center a wide panel flanked by 8 verticals and filled by opposed water birds, crested with long necks and legs; in the field beside the birds blobs and vertical wavy lines, between them parallel zigzags. To each side of the central panel a narrower one filled by parallel zigzags. The narrow end panels filled with butterfly pattern and separated from the adjacent panels and handles by sets of 7 verticals at each side. Above, 4 bands to the rim. On the rim at each side 8 sets of short vertical zigzags with sets of 8 straight verticals beside the handle attachments. On the outer face of each rolled handle a row of dots between bands; the upper faces of the straps banded. The upper face of the lip reserved and decorated with sets of parallel strokes; the inside solidly glazed. | Material: | | Buff Corinthian clay with fine creamy surface. Dull glaze black to brown, somewhat peeled. | Condition: | | Complete or intact. Many joining fragments, complete except for small chips. | Dimensions Actual: | | H. 0.251, Diam. max. 0.294, Diam. rim 0.267-0.275 | Bibliography: | | Corinth XIII, S-3 p. 39; Benson, EC Workshops, p. 15, Group C Krater Shop. | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Publication: Blegen, et al. Corinth 13, 1964
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