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
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