Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1932 74 | |
Title: | ATTIC RED-FIGURE KRATER | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1932 | |
Object Number: | 74 | |
Description: | Large krater with flaring walls, outturned rolled rim. Trace of upper part of handle stumnps below rim on fragment a. | |
Decoration: | Glazed inside with two reserved stripes, on on rim, one below. Exterior decorated in red-figure with decorative border around neck, set off above and below by groove and scraped band, chain of diagonal palmettes. Figured zone between handles: Fragment a, Side A to left of handles, head of woman facing viewer's left, wearing diadem with pointed leaves, hair in large bun behind. Side B head, upper torso of youth, facing right, holding staff. Himation over right shoulder, right arm bent, hair short, fringe across forehead. To right outline of top of head of a second figure. Fragment b, side A lower left corner, with meander bade border; above, tip of draped figure wearing chiton, himation. Side B base border of meander and cross-in-square; above, from left to right, staff, legs of nude figure running right, lower body of standing male wearing himation, facing left, holding staff. Fragment d, head of male facing left, fringed hair, bare upper chest, holding staff in front. | |
Writing: | Above female figure head : ΙθΔΑ; To left of female in field: ΘΕΣΕΥΣ | |
Attributes: | Villa Giulia Painter | |
Condition: | Fragment. Four sets of non-joining mended fragments. | |
Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | 460-450 BCE | |
Area: | Temple E | |
Provenance: | Attica | |
Findspot Description: | Temple E | |
Bibliography: | ARV 2, 619, 14; Hesperia VI 1937, p260, no3; Hesperia 1980, p301, no20 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Temple E Images (9) Notebook Page: NB 128, spread 103 (pp. 195 - 196) Notebook Page: NB 129, spread 6 (pp. 1 - 2) |