Corinth Object: CP 248
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 248
Title:   LATE HELLADIC RING-HANDLED CUP
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   248
Description:   Ring handled cup. Small shallow ring base. Shallow convex body to horizontal rim. FS 237
Decoration:   Exterior slipped and painted. Band at rim. Interior slipped and painted. Base has two concentric circles then a zone of non-joining wavy stem ivies (FM 12 #23 or #27), band at rim.
Material:   Fine hard buff clay
Munsell Color:   Surface: 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown) Core: 7.5 YR 8/3 (pink), Paint 5 YR 5/8 (red) to black
Condition:   Complete profile. 4 joining fragments preserve 2/3 base, 1/2 body, 2/3 rim, none of handle
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.02, Diam. of rim 0.09, Diam of base 0.025
Chronology:   shape dates to LH I-LH IIIA, motif LH IIB-LH IIIA
Area:   Korakou
Context:   NB83 B99 P33
    NB83 B98 P33
Findspot Description:   "E. Alley VI" in pencil on vessel; ="saucer fr EA VI" in Corinth Pottery Inventory I (CWB), p. 49 no. 26
Bibliography:   Blegen 1921, p. 53, fig. 72 no. 1
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Blegen, Korakou; a prehistoric settlement ... 1921
Monument: Korakou
Images (5)
Basket: NB83 B98 P33
Basket: NB83 B99 P33