| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1932 291 | |
| Title: | CORINTHIAN RED-FIGURE SQUAT LEKYTHOS | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1932 | |
| Object Number: | 291 | |
| Decoration: | No relief contour. Thick, sketchy relief line for interior markings. Dull, green-black glaze, fired chocolate in places, wearing thin. Miltos mostly worn off, no slip. Globular body with very little shoulder. Not tapering to base, moulded, vertical ring foot, joining underside of floor at almost right angle. At right, woman seated, legs right, facing left, leaning on her right hand on rock, left hand on knees. She wears chiton, her hair up in a bun. She faces a rock altar in center; another chitoned woman, the right 2/3 of whom are preserved, stands at left, facing altar and holding large alabastron over it with both hands. Reserved base line below them. | |
| Material: | Soft, buff cream, pink, speckled, micaceous clay. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. One fragment preserving all of base, about 2/3 of body, and small piece of neck ridge. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.050, max Diam. 0.046, Diam. of foot 0.032, TH. 0.005 | |
| Area: | Unknown | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Unknown | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 1979, p132; Hesperia 1983, p150; Corinth VII.4, p.62, no.136 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Unknown |
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