Corinth Object: C 1934 1087
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 1087
Title:   MIDDLE OR LATE CORINTHIAN CLOSED SHAPE: ARYBALLOS?
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   1087
Description:   Closed vessel with strongly convex profile, thick-walled, possibly a large aryballos.
Decoration:   ON exterior, part of an animal, facing rt., with part of body and one leg preserved. Incised on body: V-shaped element at upper break, series of horizontal lines forming bands, of which one painted purple, under it one marked with diagonal incised lines, incised outline along body; leg partly folded, incised hook for bone.
Material:   Fine buff clay with rare fine voids and black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Slightly yellower than 10YR 8/3
Condition:   Fragment. Single body frgt., broken all around.
Manufacture:   C18 WM
Dimensions Actual:   T00.007
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.048 W00.043
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   1st half 6th c. B.C.
Area:   Forum west
Context:   NB144 P194
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum west
Image: bw 2000 051 22
Basket: NB144 P194