Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1934 362 | |
Title: | OUTLINE STYLE OINOCHOE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1934 | |
Object Number: | 362 | |
Description: | Oinochoe with flaring disk foot with concave undersurface, globular body with max. diam. at H00.09, curving up without articulation into wide neck; slight deformation at shoulder and base of neck. Note: original inventory mentions stump of vertical handle, but handle does not belong. | |
Decoration: | Exterior completely reserved; ca. 0.05 from bottom a matt brown circumference band defining figured zone, which extends up to shoulder without framing borders on top or sides. Drawn in outline style in fine brown line: 2 men runing to rt. At lt., youth with head in profile to rt., torso 3/4 rt. , buttocks and legs in profile with lt. leg raised off ground; rt. arm back, holding oinochoe with high-swung handle, of which only neck-rim and handle preserved; lt. arm raised, partly covering head of 2nd figure. Curly short brown hair in which individual strands not shown, poss. curly forelocks on cheek; wears purple fillet, outlined in black, with long rounded end from which hand 3 wavy strands; nude with cloak hanging in soft folds from raised left arm. 2nd figure: have back of head and traces of beard below chin; runs with lt. arm extended, supporting cloak, and holding kantharos with high-swung handles, with row of purple dots below lip; in lowered rt. hand, which is largely covered by cloak of youth, a torch pointed slightly downwards with wispy purple flames. Interior red. | |
Material: | Fine pale pinkish-buff clay, well compacted, with rare fine tabular voids, several coarser voids. | |
Munsell Color: | Ca. 7.5YR 7/6 | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Numerous joining frgts., preserving ca. 2/5 foot, ca. 1/3 lower body, nearly half body at max. diam. and shoulder, small part of base of neck; non-joining frgts. returned to context pottery. | |
Manufacture: | C19 | |
Dimensions Actual: | D00.19 (max) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.217 | |
Dimensions Restored: | D00.094 (foot) | |
Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | Third quarter 5th or beginning of 4th | |
Area: | Forum west | |
Context: | NB144 P180 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | Pease, Hesperia 1937 p. 311-2, fig. 40; AJA 1936, p. 42, fig. 20; cited Corinth 18.1, p. 129 n. 8, n. 11 (under 292) | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Pemberton, Corinth 18:1, 1989 Publication: Pease, Hesperia 6:2, 1937 Publication: Stillwell, American Journal of Archaeolog40:1... 1936 Monument: Forum west Image: bw 2003 002 28 Image: bw 2003 002 29 Basket: NB144 P180 |