Corinth Object: C 1932 79
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1932 79
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN ALABASTRON BY THE PANTHER-BIRD GROUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1932
Object Number:   79
Description:   Ovoid alabastron, with maximum diameter below median, tapering to narrow neck, hzontal outturned rime, pierced small handle from neck to rim.
Decoration:   Black figure style. Tongues on rim and neck, dots on lip. Large animal frieze: cock with spread wings. Filling ornament: incised spoked rosettes, double-center spoked rosettes, incised blobs. Tongues on bottom. Applied purple on cock's crest, wattle, central part of body and wings.
Material:   Buff clay. Brownish black paint with applied purple.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown
Condition:   Missing parts. Mended from many fragments. Parts of neck and base missing. Restored.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Temple E. Well 1932-4.
Bibliography:   Corinth 7.1., no. 234; Boulter, AJA 1937, no. 26
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 5182