| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1933 458 | |
| Title: | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN PYXIS LID | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1933 | |
| Object Number: | 458 | |
| Description: | Pyxis lid with very low sloping profile rising from rim toward knob. Slight flange on underside. | |
| Decoration: | Underside reserved. Exterior: outer edge plain except for partial overlap of outermost border on top; 2 rows of dots on top divided by single line, framed by a line on either side; animal frieze with separate ground line, l. to r., most of a goose to r.; crouching sphinx to l. with extremely long body. Incised details, 4-spoked wheel under sphinx and long thin filling ornament. | |
| Material: | Fine buff clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., ca/ 1/4 circumference rim and part of top; glaze worn. | |
| Manufacture: | C18 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.010 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.13-00.135 | |
| Period: | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | |
| Chronology: | Middle Corinthian, 1st half 6th c. | |
| Area: | Forum southeast South Stoa | |
| Context: | NB135 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum southeast South Stoa Image: bw 1999 030 34a Basket: NB135 |
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