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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 288 | |
| Title: | LATE HELLADIC IIIC STRAIGHT-SIDED ALABASTRON | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 288 | |
| Description: | Alabastron. Large flat base, cylindrical body flare slightly at sharp shoulder carination, conical shoulder, narrow vertical neck. Probably two horizontal handles attached at shoulder. FS 96 | |
| Decoration: | Exterior slipped, polished and painted. One band at base, two thin parallel lines 1/4 of way up body, three band framed lines at mid-body, one band at carination with a row of Joining Semicircles (FM 42) attached to top, two opposing rows of Joining Semicircles (FM 42), neck painted solid. | |
| Material: | Fine clay with some fine grit | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown), Paint 7.5 YR 5/6 (strong brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. eight fragments preserve c. 25% of base and body | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | max.p.H. 0.140 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam of base 0.170, Diam of body 0.170, H. 0.164 | |
| Period: | Late Helladic IIIA2 | |
| Chronology: | Rutter dates it to late LH IIIB or early LH IIIC p. 378 | |
| Area: | Korakou | |
| Context: | NB81 B64 P229 | |
| Findspot Description: | This may not be the correct basket for this vessel. | |
| Bibliography: | Blegen 1921, p. 70, fig. 101; Furumark 1941A FS 96.2; Rutter 1974 p. 360, no. 3 | |
| Site: | Korakou | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Blegen, Korakou; a prehistoric settlement ... 1921 Publication: Furumark, The Chronology of Mycenaean Po... 1941 Publication: Rutter, The late Helladic IIIB and IIIC ... 1974 Monument: Korakou Images (5) Basket: NB81 B64 P229 |
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