188, Krater. Plate 26. AJA., II, 1898, pp. 195 205, pis. VI-VII. Athens, National Museum, no.
12432. Restored height, 0.34 m. Greatest diameter,
0.40 m.
Foot and large body fragments restored. Light buff clay, greenish tinge on exterior. Full body with small base, low wide cylindrical neck, wide horizontal rim with ledge handles; horizontal rolled handles rise almost vertically from the shoulder and join the ledge handles. Double pal
mettes on ledge handles, rays on rim, large re served panel on either side between handles, swan flanked by cocks in one panel and panther and boar in other, incised rosettes for fill ornaments in both panels, wide reserved band with rays at base.
Rest covered with black glaze; wide applied pur ple band and three white lines around body below reserved panels and purple band just above zone of rays at base.
The krater is no. 776 in Payne's catalogue
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Necrocorinthia, pp. 181-209.
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(Necrocorintkia, p. 301), where it is placed first in the list of Early Corinthian column-kraters.
Payne calls this shape a new one in Greek ceram ics. However, there has appeared subsequently a handle of an Attic column-krater which is Late typically Early Corinthian (Necrocorintkia, pis.
17, 11; 22, 2; 26, 9). The standard filling orna with alternating dot rosettes and vertical
zigzags, rays at bottom. Glaze deep red, details painted on animals with purple color.
The shape is that of Necrocorintkia, Cata logue, nos. 700-706. The Subgeometric decoration and the dot rosettes in the minor zones are usual on the early vases of this shape (Necrocorintkia, pi. 22, 4-5). The drawing of the sphinx closely resembles that on Transitional vases (Necrocorin tkia, pi. 10, 2 and 4, pi. 11). The use of incision
the Early Corinthian series. Payne (Necrocorin thia, p. 296) suggests that nos. 700-703 of his
large kotyle like Necrocorin thia, pi. 22, 2. The wavy lines on the handle zone
Spherical body, slightly flattened bottom. Radiat ing tongues on bottom, scene on body without bounding lines and no rays on shoulder, large lotus and-palmette motive in center flanked by sphinxes wearing high poloi, light filling of incised rosettes.
Black glaze, no overpaint.
The shape is the usual round aryballos type Bi (Necrocorinthia, p. 288). Payne's group E (Necrocorinthia, p. 290) consists of aryballoi without bounding lines to the scenes. The large floral ornament is of the Early Corinthian type.
The drawing of the sphinxes is archaic and closely
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resembles Transitional examples (Necrocorintkia,
Complete. Light buff clay. Slightly flattened globular body. Small radiating tongues on mouth Payne's catalogue (Necrocorintkia, p. 290; add
Perachora, pi. 31, 4). The wings, details incised, red overpaint, irregularly
shaped incised rosettes, dot rosette on bottom.
Broad bottom, almost hemispherical body, raised ring on shoulder, high narrow cylindrical neck, tre Corinthian broad-bottomed oinochoai (Necrocorin
thia, pis. 13, 1 and 24, 2), and the tongues on the shoulder and band of rays at the base are usual.
However, oinochoai without animal-frieze decora tion are unusual in this period.
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199. Neck of Conical Oinochoe. Plate 28. AJA., fine reddish-brown glaze except for reserved band at base which is filled with rays, five red lines painted over glaze on body.
The shape is the same as No. 199 and Necro corinthia, p. 299, fig. 136. There is a group of conical oinochoai in the black-polychrome style which belongs to this period. Other similar vases cal neck, trefoil lip, double-rolled vertical handle.
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Reserved shoulder band with animal decoration?
Small ring foot, wide-flaring body, horizontal rolled handles. Reserved band with rays at base, typically Early Corinthian. Other similar kotylai of this period are Nos. 214-216, 261-273, and one impurities. Very small splayed foot, wide-flaring body, offset rim, horizontal rolled handles. Stripes on rim, handle zone with group of vertical lines at sides and short vertical daubs at center; rest of vase covered with reddish-brown glaze.
The shape and decoration are similar to the
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215. Kotyle. C-36-731. Height, 0.065 m.
About one third preserved. Light buff clay.
Shape like No. 207. Decoration similar to No.
207, but white line on edge of lip and white and purple line below handles.
216. Kotyle. C-36-737. Height, 0.117 m.
About one third preserved. Red clay. Low ring foot, high flaring body. Reserved band with rays at base, rest covered with fine red glaze, white and purple applied lines under handles, above rays and midway between first two, white line on in terior near lip.
The shape is larger and taller and has a wider foot and straighter sides than Nos. 214 and 215;
it is more like No. 177 of the previous period.
There are three edged purple bands used instead of the usual two.
217. Kothon. Plate 29. C-36-744. Preserved height, 0.041 m. Greatest diameter, 0.173 m.
Lower body and base gone. Buff clay. Broad reserved band on body with animal frieze?pan ther, lion, and panther?red overpaint on
figures, incised rosettes; wide black band below animal frieze and band of rays below this; incurved lip covered with black glaze and decorated with ap plied purple bands edged in white placed above animal frieze and applied white circle rosettes near the lip.
The shape, misnamed kothon, appears in the Early Corinthian period (Necrocorintkia, p. 298, nos. 722-724). Other examples of the same period are Nos. 296-298. The reflex handle is usual in
this period. The careless animal drawing is done in the Early Corinthian style. The circle rosettes are like those on Nos. 204 and 206.