Corinth Object: C 1961 397
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1961 397
Title:   ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE PANATHENAIC PRIZE AMPHORA
Category Code:   C
Year:   1961
Object Number:   397
Description:   Wall fragments of a Panathenaic amphora.
Decoration:   a. Wall decoration showing the overfall of Athena's peplos. Thick added-white decoration. Trace of black glaze at upper right break. b. At right break, probably the tapering and swelling of the peplos at the waist; the diagonal line represents the narrow cloak behind Athena's back, looped over the right arm; the left-hand area is the falling end of the cloak. Athena faces right.
Mythology:   Athena
Material:   Fine reddish yellow clay.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. 2 non-joining frgts., each made up of 3 joining pieces.
Manufacture:   C18 WM
Period:   4th c. B.C.
Chronology:   After 389 B.C.
Area:   Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
Context:   NB233 B1 P43, LOT 0896
Provenance:   Attica
Bibliography:   Pemberton 1989, Corinth 18.1, cat. 305
Site:   Acrocorinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Pemberton, Corinth 18:1, 1989
Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore