Corinth Object: Z 959
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   Z 959
Title:   MYCENAEAN DEEP ROUNDED BOWL WITH HORIZONTAL HANDLES
Category:   Miscellaneous
Category Code:   Z
Object Number:   959
Description:   Deep rounded bowl with horizontal handles (Mycenaean Deep Bowl) (FF 80), everted rim. Similar to CP-307 (Blegen 1921, Korakou, p. 49, fig. 65).
Decoration:   Reddish-brown unidentified "fantastical creature" (FM 8, Various Animals): quadruped rabbit like creature with long ibex-like horns. Reddish-brown band on interior and exterior of rim and below decorative register. Reddish-brown line tracing side and top of handle join.
Material:   Fine very pale brown clay with no inclusions or voids.
Munsell Color:   10YR 7/4 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of rim, upper body, and base of handle.
Manufacture:   Mycenaean Lustrous Decoration, WM
Weight Description:   0.029
Weight:   0.029
Period:   Late Helladic III
Chronology:   based on use of pictorial decorations not prior to LH III. "Later"
LH III in Blegen's terms (Blegen 1928, Zygouries, pp. 139).
Bibliography:   Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 139–140, fig. 131.10
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece