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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 242 | |
| Title: | MIDDLE HELLADIC MATT-PAINTED SPOUTED JUG | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 242 | |
| Description: | Beaked jug. Flat base, globular body with sloping shoulder and slightly flaring neck. Inside can see where neck added on to body it is lumpy - obviously clay for neck added and smoothed on already thrown body. | |
| Decoration: | Exterior painted, maybe slipped. Two bands below maximum diameter of body, below decorative zone. Main zone has motif of multiple triangles which overlap at the top to form a sort of cross-hatching (Buck Hesp. 1964 Motif 44 "Multiple triangles in a row"). Two bands at base of neck. | |
| Material: | Hard clay | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5 YR 8/2 (pinkish white), Core: 7.5 YR 8/2 (pinkish white), Paint 7.5 YR 4/2 (brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. 7 joining fragments preserve 1/3 of base, 1/3 of body, none of rim or handles | |
| Manufacture: | WM/HM | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | max. p. H. 0.20, max. p. diam. 0.155 | |
| Period: | Middle Helladic | |
| Area: | Korakou | |
| Context: | NB83 B123 P39 | |
| Findspot Description: | = "1/2 jug from betw Doll's house & F" in Corinth Pottery Inventory I (CWB), p. 29 no. 7; presumably "Doll's house" refers to House B, and of the baskets known to us this basket best fits this description. | |
| Bibliography: | Blegen 1921, p. 22, fig. 31 | |
| Site: | Korakou | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Blegen, Korakou; a prehistoric settlement ... 1921 Monument: Korakou Image: bw 2004 020 33 Basket: NB83 B123 P39 |
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