| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | LOT 1937 2:19 | |
| Title: | CONVEX PYXIS WITH LEBES RIM | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | LOT | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 2 | |
| Description: | Ovoid body; sloping shoulder; outward-thickened rim. | |
| Decoration: | Fine buff slip. Glaze is fired black to brown. Brownish red paint. On body, black band, black teardrop-shaped blob buds. Red, black, red lines at junction with shoulder. On shoulder, black diagonal and horizontal palmettes with radiating leaves between them. Handles apparently decorated with black dots. Two closely spaced black bands on rim. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/4 to 7/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Four nonjoining fragments mended from seven sherds give profile from top half of body to shoulder and rim. Stump of vertical reflex handle preserved. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.060 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D. interior of rim 0.055 | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | First half of the 4th century, perhaps first quarter. | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth VII.5, p.42, no.34 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece |
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