Corinth Basket: NB81 B17 P205
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   NB81 B17 P205
Area:   Korakou
Title:   Trench I, G V
Category:   Basket/zembil
Notebook:   81
Context:   17
Page:   205
Date:   1915/05/08
Stratum:   Trench I, G V
Notes:   G V Ca. 1.10-1.45 in depth. Loose brownish soil. Very few fragments. All rather coarse - kind of Urfinis.
[p. 347]
G V 1.05-1.30 (and 1.00-1.45)
Plain black Urfirnis is common 45 sherds. Thin black and black brown paint.
Plain red 7 sherds
Patterned Urfirnis. One sherd lustrous brown red on buff
[sketch of sherd with design]
[Tzonou-Herbst= Blegen 1921, p. 9, fig. 9, no. 19, patterned ware, EH period, group C.
Stored in basement drawer.]
Light on Dark. 1 sherd white lines on red.
Plain buff surface about as numerous as Urfirnis. Some of these sherds are fine and well burnished. 25 unpolished 13 polished.
Black polished a dozen sherds or more, fairly coarse. 1 small sherd like imitation Minyan with incised dec.
Coarse sherds 20 or 25 some painted (Urfirnis). One has raised rope band with incisions.
(Mycenaean 1 sherd?)
[MN: 125 / 323]
[Tzonou-Herbst= Could the imitation Minyan with incised decoration be EH III fine gray burnished?]
[NB 85, p. 60, CWB:]

G V 1.00-1.45 (1.05-1.30)
Urfirnis Red surfaced 7 sherds
Black surfaced 45 sherds
Patterened lustrous red on buff 1 sherd
cream yellow on red 1 sherd
Plain buff 25 unpolished
13 polished and good fabric
Black polished 21 sherds mostly rather coarse. Some highly polished. 1 piece like imit. Minyan.
Bases 7 raised and 7 flat
Period:   Early Helladic
Chronology:   EH, with 1 imitation Minyan, 1 Mycenaean not mentioned in NB85
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   -1.45--1m.