Stand
Tripod Pyxis
MS266
From: Greece | Corinthia | Corinth
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS266 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Corinthian |
| Provenience | Greece | Corinthia | Corinth |
| Manufacture Location | Corinth |
| Period | Middle Corinthian Period |
| Date Made | 595-570 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Tripod pyxis. Intact. Relatively shallow bowl, rim with slight bevel, slope inward, two wheel-run grooves on top edge. Interior of bowl: dot at center surrounded by circle but with dilute glaze filling up the area between dot and circle. Dot and circle enclosed within broader circle of added red. Beyond, the rest of interior is solidly glaze up to narrow reserved band just below rim. Added red at very top of interior and passing over top and outer face of rim. Exterior: five horizontal wavy lines in dilute black glaze. On bottom: circled dot, concnetric ring at mid-field and another at outer edge. Tripod legs are cut out of a low cylinder, the space between each pair of legs is 3.0 cm wide. On each leg: two zones of alternate dot frieze separated by broad band with added red. 5596 written inside one foot. |
| Height | 4.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 10 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Francis C. Macauley, Esq., 1890 |
| Other Number | 5596 - Old Museum Number |
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