Corinth Object: CP 221
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 221
Title:   LATE HELLADIC IIA SEMI-GLOBULAR CUP
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   221
Description:   Semi-globular cup. Slightly carinated body, small outturned flaring lip. One vertical strap handle attached at rim and center of body. FS 211 or 212
Stem entirely and incorrectly restored
Decoration:   Exterior is slipped and painted. Body from well below belly to rim has a series of groups of four vertical wavy lines (FM 78 ripple pattern). Rim is painted on exterior and interior. Handle has a solid band along its length.
Material:   Fine hard pink buff clay
Munsell Color:   Surface: 7.5 YR 8/4 (pink), Paint 10 R 5/8 (red)
Condition:   Fragment. 11 joining fragments preserve 1/2 body, 90% rim, 1 handle
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   Diam of rim 0.118
Dimensions Preserved:   max. p. H. 0.057
Period:   Late Helladic II
Chronology:   based on FS and FM
Area:   Korakou
Context:   NB83 B114 P37
    NB83 B130 P41
    NB83 B107 P34
    NB83 B113 P37
Findspot Description:   "9" and "10" written on inside of sherds (presumably, East Alley levels); ="1 handled goblet red on buff groups of five par wavy lines EA X" in Corinth Pottery Inventory I (CWB), p. 47 no. 7
Bibliography:   Blegen 1921, p. 50 fig. 66 no. 1
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Blegen, Korakou; a prehistoric settlement ... 1921
Monument: Korakou
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