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ANDRÁS MÁRTON AND GYÖRGY NEMES: Corinthian White-Ground Lekythoi
3. WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS (FIG. 9)' 7 The vase itself is swollen and asymmetrical in shape. Narrow high disk foot with a groove on the side. The bottom of the foot rises steeply, with a knob in the centre. Tall neck, narrow sloping shoulder, and downward-tapering cylindrical body. Deep trumpet mouth, its rim rounded at the top with a groove on the inside. The inside and outside of the mouth, the upper part of the neck and the handle, as well as the lower part of the body and the upper surface of the foot is covered with a black matt glaze which in some places has fired to reddish-brown or brown. The glaze is completely worn off in some places. A thick layer of crystalline sediment covers the body, the shoulder and the side of the foot. Palmer's group iii, ca. 425-400/375 BC. Corinthian white-ground lekythoi were first described by S. B. Luce. 1H Not long after, Haspels observed that three white lekythoi attributed to the Beldam Painter might have been made of Corinthian clay. 19 However, this observation was not taken into account by scholars of Corinthian wiiite-ground lekythoi. F. Eichler identified several Corinthian white lekythoi in Viennese collections. 20 Based on examples found in the North Cemetery of Corinth, II. Palmer laid the foundations of their chronology and the standard typology that is still used today. She sorted the lekythoi from this cemetery into three large groups (i-ii-iii). 21 Both Palmer's work, and that of later scholars excluded Corinthian white-ground chimney lekythoi. D. U. Schilardi w T as the first to identify Corinthian white-ground lekythoi outside of the Corinthia, while working on the material from the polyandrion of Thespiae. 22 B. R. MacDonald refined the dating of Corinthian lekythoi during his studies of the influence of the Peloponnesian war on Corinthian importation of Attic pottery. 23 A. Steiner published important finds from the Sacred Spring of Corinth in 1990: 24 her article made known a large number of white-ground lekythoi from a nonfunerary context. WHITEGROUND LEK Y THUS (DETAIL). BUDAPEST. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
