Corinth Object: C 1934 2558 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | C 1934 2558 | | Title: | | LARGE CORINTHIAN RED-GROUND CLOSED SHAPE | | Category Code: | | C | | Year: | | 1934 | | Object Number: | | 2558 | | Description: | | Closed shape with convex body in so far as preserved. | | Decoration: | | Exterior: ground painted light red, against which neck and wing of a siren or sphinx ? in profile to rt. Neck white, with black vertical "stripe" at rt. break - hair ?; wing spread with incised flight feathers and incised lines circling base of wing; added purple on wing base and on alternating flight feathers. Interior unglazed. | | Material: | | Fine pale buff clay without visible inclusions. | | Munsell Color: | | 10YR 8/3 | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single body frgt., broken all around; paint partly flaked away. | | Manufacture: | | C18 | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.032 W00.058 | | Period: | | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | | Chronology: | | 2nd half 6th c. B.C.; context medieval | | Area: | | Forum southwest West Shops | | Context: | | NB143 P73 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Forum southwest West Shops
Image: bw 1998 033 25
Basket: NB143 P73
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