Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | T 2986 | |
Title: | LEKYTHOS | |
Category: | Miscellaneous | |
Category Code: | T | |
Object Number: | 2986 | |
Old Number: | P-1827 | |
Description: | Lekythos with disk foot with flaring profile, undersurface concave with depressed center, cylindrical body rising from narrow stem, flat shoulder curving up to tall narrow neck, flaring rim with broad flat lip. Vertical strap handle from shoulder to upper neck. | |
Decoration: | Foot and undersurface reserved, red line near bottom of foot; top of foot and lower 1/5 body black glazed with 2 thin reserved lines; upper 4/5 of body reserved, slipped white, decorated with 3 upright palmettes with incised petals and double incised heart; palmettes separated by tall single petals, and each palmette enclosed in a black outline; below, row of linked circles with dotted center; red blob on field to rt. 2 rows of rays on shoulder, neck and lip reserved, rim and handle back glazed. | |
Material: | Fine light red clay with frequent fine sparkling inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 | |
Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact. | |
Manufacture: | C20 WM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.109 D00.033 (foot) D00.043 (max) D00.027 (rim) | |
Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | 455-445 B.C. | |
Area: | North Cemetery | |
Context: | NB395 P425 | |
Provenance: | Attica | |
Bibliography: | Blegen 1964, Corinth 13, cat. 333-13; Corinth VII.5, p.12 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Blegen, et al. Corinth 13, 1964 Monument: North Cemetery Basket: NB395 P425 |