| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1962 388 | |
| Title: | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN TREFOIL OINOCHOE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1962 | |
| Object Number: | 388 | |
| Description: | Typical Middle Corinthian oinochoe on ring foot, with flaring body and almost horizontal shoulder. Neck offset from body; trefoil mouth offset from neck (join lines?). Handle grooved on top and sides, from shoulder arches to rim, to which it is attached by spool-like projections. | |
| Decoration: | Decoration of three figure friezes separated by bands of glaze; neck, rim, handle and foot glazed; zone of ray pattern just above foot. Shoulder frieze: man running to right between sirens; two panthers. Second frieze: panthers, lions, deer, goat, owl. Lowest frieze: Panthers, ram, deer. Lavish use of degenerate dot and incised rosettes. Some superimposed red paint; incision. cf. Perchora II, pls 70,71, for decoration; Necrocorinthia, p. 32 and fig. 10f, for shape. | |
| Material: | Buff clay; decoration in black to red glaze paint and red paint. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Missing parts of body; restored in plaster. Warped and split below handle during firing. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | Ht 0.335; Ht with handle 0.402; Diam 0.26 | |
| Period: | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth VII.2 An 22; Amyx CorVP Mcor., Schistos Ptr. 1; Corinth 20, 2003. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the ... 1988 Images (20) |
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