Corinth Object: CP 304
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 304
Title:   LATE HELLADIC III HYDRIA
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   304
Description:   Hydria. Globular body to concave splaying neck with slightly hollowed rim, vertical loop handle from rim to shoulder. Two horizontal loop handles at max. diameter. FS 128
Decoration:   Exterior slipped, polished and painted. Three bands on lower body, three bands on shoulder, one band at base of neck, rim painted. Vertical handles has a vertical wavy band and a ring around lower attachment. Horizontal handle has three splashes.
Material:   Fine clay with occasional large and small pieces of dark red grit
Munsell Color:   Surface 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown), Core 5 YR 6.5/8 ( reddish yellow), Paint 1.25 YR 5/8 (red)
Condition:   Fragment. thirteen fragments joined into three non-joining fragments preserve 60% upper body, all rim, three handles
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   Diam. of rim 0.115
Dimensions Restored:   max. diam. 0.32
Chronology:   LH IIIB or LH IIIC, based on Rutter
Area:   Korakou
Context:   Korakou, unknown
Findspot Description:   Rutter notes that it is said in Corinth Inventory vol. I to come from "between R and S"
Bibliography:   Rutter 1974, p. 365 no. 8
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Rutter, The late Helladic IIIB and IIIC ... 1974
Monument: Korakou
Basket: Korakou, unknown