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 |