Corinth Object: CP 210
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 210
Title:   LATE HELLADIC II LOW BOWL
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   210
Description:   Low bowl (alabastron shaped). Flat base. Body rounded, squat globular, short flaring neck and flaring rim. Handle restored as vertical, flat handle running from shoulder to widest diameter. Furumark shape 17: squat jar with one vertical handle, #87 of LH IIB
Decoration:   thick creamy buff slip; decoration in fine lustrous red-brown paint. Rim painted inside and out; neck painted on outside. Main zone (handle zone) has wavy band on bottom (band is thick, wavy on top and stright on bottom); chief motif is sacral ivy pattern with double curved stem. Between each pair of ivy leaves is a wavy line which comes down from a "m" shaped line along the base of the neck. Lower body has a pair of parallel horizontal bands. Furumark motif 12: sacral ivy
Material:   Fine hard pink buff clay
Condition:   Mended from 26 sherds. Ca 50% of body and hole handle missing and R.I.P.
Dimensions Actual:   Diam (Rim): 0.07, Diam (base): 0.05, Diam (max): 0.132
Dimensions Preserved:   H: 0.09;
Period:   Late Helladic II
Area:   Korakou
Context:   NB84 B174 P112
    NB83 B104 P34
    NB84 B171 P110
    NB84 B173 P112
    NB83 B100 P33
Findspot Description:   ="ivy vase from M IV V VI + EA VII" in Corinth Pottery Inventory I (CWB), p. 47 no. 2; on same photo in NB and Korakou as CP 212
Bibliography:   Blegen 1921, fig 71, #2, p. 53
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Blegen, Korakou; a prehistoric settlement ... 1921
Monument: Korakou
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