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the central ridge unpainted. The first brown band
reaches the outer edge of the rim top.
Findspot: Vrysoula deposit, dated from about 450
to 415 or 410 B.C.
60. Bowl fragment Fig. 3, P1. 72
CP-84. H. 0.045, W. 0.086, rest. D. 0.60, Th.
0.015.
Slightly impure, reddish yellow clay (5YR 6/6)
at the core with predominantly red inclusions;
fine, pink slip (7.5YR 7/4). A small part of the
original circumference is preserved; chipped surface
with incrustations.
Overhanging rim, articulated with pendulous, in-
ward slanting lip; slightly convex top. The side of the
lip is modeled with two groups of three ridges of
varying height, separated by a central space. Wide
bands, irregularly painted alternately in dark red
and brown, cover the first and third ridges in each
group, leaving the central one unpainted. The up-
permost red band reaches the outer edge of the rim
top; the lowermost brown band covers the underside
of the lip.
Findspot unknown.
5th or 4th century B.C.
61. Bowl fragment Fig. 3, P1. 72
C-66-137. H. 0.055, W. 0.262, rest. D. 0.528, Th.
0.014.
Impure, reddish yellow clay (7.5YR 7/6) with
red inclusions; thin, reddish yellow slip (7.5YR
8/6). About one fifth of the original circumference
is preserved; eroded surface.
Overhanging rim, articulated with pendulous lip;
wide, slightly convex top. The side of the lip is mod-
eled with two groups of three ridges of varying
height, separated by a central space. There remain
sparse traces of alternately dark red and brown
bands which covered the ridges and the edge of the
top. On the top, its base to the outside, a rather wide
lambda (H. 0.058, W. 0.03) is incised.
CORINTHIAN BASINS ON HIGH STANDS 385
Findspot: Peribolos of Apollo; '07 the fragment
was found in a context datable to the Hellenistic pe-
riod (Lot 3597).
5th or 4th century B.C.
62. Bowl fragment Fig. 3, P1. 72
C-68-341. H. 0.055, W. 0.141, rest. D. 0.60, Th.
0.035.
Very impure, very pale brown clay (1OYR 8/4)
with predominantly gray inclusions; pale yellow
slip (5Y 8/3) which is thick and well purified on
the outer surface of the lip and extremely thin on
the top, allowing the texture of the clay underneath
to be seen and emphasizing the most superficial
and larger inclusions. A small part of the
original circumference is preserved. Surface eroded
in places, especially in the inner part of the
bowl; some incrustations.
Overhanging rim, articulated with pendulous, inward
slanting lip; wide top, perhaps in a continuous
profile with the interior. On the flat side of the lip, a
neat decoration is painted on two horizontal superimposed
registers bordered by thin black bands. In
the upper register there is a row of eggs and darts,
reserved on a cream-colored field and outlined with a
rather diluted black glaze; the eggs are painted with
a wide red band, a thin black tongue in the reserved
inner space. In the second register a hook maeander
alternates with squares formed of eight alternately
red and white checks around a central black check.
The double maeander is in the reserved technique,
i.e., with black lines which accent the light bands.
Findspot: Sacred Spring.108 The fragment was
found in a 4th-century B.C. context.
The ornamental scheme of the maeander, variously
bent and interrupted by the insertion of different
elements, is as widespread in the Archaic,
Classical, and Hellenistic periods as the simple continuous
Geometric maeander. This particular variety
of the double maeander, a four-branched type alternating
with square cartouches which encircle
various motifs (such as rosettes which are perhaps
the earliest, stars, simple or dotted crosses, checker-
107 For the excavations of the large arcaded court east of the street going to the Lechaion, presumably built
after the repopulation of the city under the name Laus Julia Corinthiensis in 44 B.C., and which takes its name
from a statement in Pausanius (II.3.3), see R. Stillwell, S. Scranton, and S. E. Freeman, Corinth I, ii, Architecture,
Cambridge, Mass. 1941, pp. 1-54; C. K. Williams, II, "Excavations at Corinth," AEAr 23, 1968, B' 1
(1969), pp. 134-135.
108 See footnote 86 above.