Corinth Basket: NB81 B13 P204
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   NB81 B13 P204
Area:   Korakou
Title:   Trench I, E IV
Category:   Basket/zembil
Notebook:   81
Context:   13
Page:   204
Date:   1915/05/07
Stratum:   Trench I, E IV
Notes:   E IV In this level 0.75 and deeper we find loose blackish soil a good many bones some rough cooking pots some pieces of Urfirnis and several fragments which Wace says are decorated Urfirnis something like mattmalerei. Small tusk of a boar.
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E IV 0.75-1.10. Coarseware 14 sherds a good many sherds of cooking pots, etc.
Plain red Urfirnis 12 sherds
Plain black Urfirnis 28 incl. some rather coarse sherds. Some have a raised incised rope band.
Patterned Urfirnis. Black on buff. 7 sherds (2 of them from same pot)
Section showing shape and sketch of pattern
[sketches of sherd in profile and decoration]
[Tzonou-Herbst= Blegen 1921, plate I, no. 2: patterned ware, EH period, Class C I (A), and p. 9, fig. 9, no. 17.
Stored in basement drawer.]
Also, 1 sherd black brown on buff
Gray Minyan 1 sherd
Polished black surface. A few sherds and polished red and brown. 16 sherds in all.
Plain buff unpolished 12 sherds in all
Polished buff 3 sherds.
1 piece of obsidian
Small boar’s tusk
[MN: 80]
Period:   Middle Helladic
Chronology:   the bulk is EH, 1 sherd is MH
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   -1.1--0.75m.