pieces of pottery. Of these, forty-nine vases belong to the Middle Corinthian style and nineteen pieces are of the Late Corinthian period. At the end of this period, by the middle of the sixth century, the Orientalizing style had practically disappeared,1 and a new style of vase decoration, called the Conventionalizing style, had begun to develop. This new style is represented by a few vases in the following catalogue. There are also large groups of late Orientalizing and of Conventionalizing pottery from the North Cemetery and from the Potters' Quarter at Corinth.
The one large group of pottery from the Middle Corinthian period, comprising the vases Nos. 331 to 360, was found in 1915 in a well located in the Julian Basilica at the eastern end of the Agora at Corinth. The large krater No. 312 was found in the Stoa built on the north slope of the Temple Hill; the vases Nos. 313,315,318, and 330 were all found during recent excavations on Temple Hill. From the Agora South-East
section came the pieces Nos. 317 and 328; No. 320 is from the South Basilica, No. 322 from the Agora North-East section, No. 321 from the Per?bolos of Apollo, No. 325 from the area of the museum, and No. 323 from a well near Temple E.
312. Krater. Plates 38 and 39. AJA., XXXV, 1931, p. 413, fig. 7. C-30-103. Restored height,
0.37 m. Greatest diameter, 0.457 m
Base, handles, rim, and body fragments re stored. Light buff clay, greenish tinge. Very small base, body almost biconical with wide-flaring
lower part, pronounced curve at greatest diameter and wide shoulder, low cylindrical neck, wide hori zontal lip. Lotus-and-palmette chain on lip, neck covered with black glaze. Wide frieze on upper body decorated by a scene of Herakles and the
Centaurs?two centaurs on either side of the vase
carry pine branches, a siren and a figure of Hera kles drawing a bow occupy the space under one of
the handles; two wounded centaurs flee before Herakles and two others pursue him; under the
other handle there is an eagle in flight carrying a snake and to the left of the eagle are two male figures facing each other. The centaurs have full
human bodies in front joined on to equine bodies.
Short incised strokes all over the human bodies represent hair; otherwise incision is used spar ingly. No red overpaint is used on any of the fig ures. A black band separates the main frieze from a narrow animal frieze in which there are four panthers, three grazing deer between the panthers and a padded dancer. Details of the animals are
incised, but no red paint is used. There is a wide black band below this animal frieze and then a band with rays at the base. Good black glaze, much chipped off.
The krater, which is the usual column-krater with ledge handles, is one of the largest of the
series. The shape is unusually wide-bellied, but the tapering body, the small foot, and the height of the neck are all similar to characteristic fea tures of Middle Corinthian kraters (Necrocorin thia, p. 316). The lotus-and-palmette design on the 1
Necrocorinthia, p. 59.
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rim also belongs to the same period. The long thin details incised, incised rosette in field, vertical zig zags along side of flange.
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318. Krater Handle. Plate 40. C-37-2488. Width, right side of fragment, inscription between horses and warrior in Corinthian alphabet reads TON$OM, horses' manes and design on crest of helmet covered with red-brown glaze. Inscription incised in glaze within a rectangle reads frTEf- The frag
graffito above lines reads-Liravrj-.
324. Kotyle. CP-98. Height, 0.08 m. Greatest di
ameter, 0.123 m.
Handles and body fragments restored. Light buff clay. Rather wide splayed foot, high-flaring body, horizontal rolled handles. Reserved band filled with linear rays at base, rest covered with lotus-and-palmette chain is of the Middle Corin thian type (Necrocorinthia, p. 149, fig. 55E). The winged Typhon is seen on another Middle Corin
thian cup in Munich (Necrocorinthia, p. 311, no.
985). The very heavy filling of rosettes and dots is typical of the Middle Corinthian period.
326. Fragment of a Cup with Offset Rim. Plate
41. C-29-70.
Very small fragment of shoulder preserved.
Light buff clay. Eagle flying to left in field, head
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rosettes; edged red band near rim, red paint on decorated in the usual black-polychrome tech nique.
329. Pyxis Fragment. C-39-26. Preserved height,
0.084 m
Payne mentions only two possible examples of this shape in the Middle Corinthian period
developed Middle Corinthian type (Necrocorin thia, p. 75, fig. 20F).
331. Oinochoe. Plate 41. Ure, Origin of Tyranny, p. 185, fig. 22. CP-140. Height, 0.32 m. Greatest
diameter, 0.137 m.
Small body fragments restored. Light buff clay, greenish tinge. Shape like Necrocorinthia, p.
33, fig. 10F. Three animal friezes on body sepa
large body fragments restored. Light
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buff clay, greenish tinge. Small base, bulbous body, rather high cylindrical neck, rolled handles rising obliquely from shoulders, wide rim with ledge handles. Zigzags on rim, eagles on handle flanges, reserved panel on upper part of body decorated with heraldic arrangement of male bearded sirens on one side with an incised rosette
Light pinkish-buff clay. Splayed foot, high-flaring body, horizontal rolled handles. Handle zone filled with vertical zigzags, two bands above and below zontal rolled handles. Vertical zigzags in handle zone, animal frieze with very crude animals, heavy filling of ring rosettes and dots, wide band above and below animal frieze, horizontal lines at base.
The shape is unusually squat. The vase, as well as the equally poor kotylai Nos. 340 and 341, belongs to Payne's "Subgeometric Style" (Necro
corinthia, p. 309). foot, wide-flaring body, horizontal rolled handles.
Reserved band with rays at base, rest covered with good brown-black glaze, three white lines
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with purple bands between them under handle, splayed foot, high-flaring body, horizontal rolled handles. Solidly covered with black glaze, wide band handle. Handmade, unglazed, surface
smoothly burnished.
thicker. Handmade, unglazed, rather well bur nished.
358. Jug. CP-141. Height, 0.08 m. less handle.
Greatest diameter, 0.077 m
Handle and body fragments missing. Buff clay. Shape like No. 357, but irregular. Hand made, unglazed, coarsely burnished.
359. Aryballos. Plate 43. CP-146. Height, 0.15
lip, vertical band handle. Handmade, unglazed, rather well burnished.
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The shape is similar to bottles common in the Middle Corinthian period (Necrocorinthia, p.
313, nos. 1067-1072), but handles are rare on
Slightly flattened spherical body, narrow cylindri cal neck. Tongues on shoulder, four horizontal late "warrior group" (Necrocorinthia, p. 320).
The drawing is good for this period. Corinthian period. There are numerous examples
from the graves at Rhitsona in particular. flaring bowl, horizontal rolled handles. Handle zone with triglyph and metope group at either side
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wings and throat covered with red paint, incised is decorated in the "White Style" (see Necrocorin thia, pp. 322-3); some of the elements of the decoration are Subgeometric. The figure decora
tion on the bottom of the vase is unusual; the the Late Corinthian period (cf. Necrocorinthia, pi.
36). The griffin-bird is particularly common in this brown-black glaze, incised tongues on shoulder, every third one filled with red paint, three white palmette chain, three horizontal bands below this,
rays at base, base glazed.
The decoration is very similar to that on a Late Corinthian pyxis from Thebes (Necrocorin
thia, pi. 35, 6). The lotus-and-palmette chain is
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For similar oinochoai see Necrocorinthia, p. 325, no. 1382 ; C.V.A., U. of California I, iii C, pi. X, 3.
374. Broad-bottomed Oinochoe. Plate 44. Hes peria, VIII, 1939, P. 193, fig. 3A. C-38-550. Pre served height, 0.069 m.
About one fourth preserved. Grayish-buff clay. Shape like No. 373. Incised tongues on shoul der, broad black and red bands on edge of shoul der and at base, wide band on body decorated with repeating group of double vertical squiggles with the space between them filled with a dot rosette above and a small bird below.
The vase is decorated in the "Conventionaliz ing Style," but the work is more careful than is handle. Unglazed, covered with a greenish-yellow
slip, three incised branches on each handle.
Similar bowls with reflex handles, decorated in the figure or the polychrome styles, were known
Small fragments restored. Reddish-brown sandy clay. Wide-splayed foot, ovoid body, splayed
low rim, vertical double-rolled handle. Chain of of crescents. Glaze reddish-brown.
In his comprehensive study of Fikellura pot