Corinth Basket: NB81 B8 P202
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   NB81 B8 P202
Area:   Korakou
Title:   Trench I, G II
Category:   Basket/zembil
Notebook:   81
Context:   8
Page:   202
Date:   1915/05/07
Stratum:   Trench I, G II
Notes:   G II. Nothing very much -- mostly plain coarse pottery. Some Urfirnis. One piece looks suspiciously Greek.
[Tzonou-Herbst= the two pottery entries that follow are similar except for the addition of the Mycenaean in the first entry]
[NB 81, p. 346]
G II 0.25-0.50 Mycenaean half a dozen poor sherds
Plain black Urfirnis characteristic about 36 sherds
Patterned Urfirnis. Black on buff 3 pieces red on buff 1. Red brown on buff 1 sherd
Light on Dark 3 sherds (white lines) 2 of these I think are identical with Orch. and Ag. Marina type
Plain buff 18 sherds unpolished or so
Minyan gray variety 2 small bits
Black polished 11 sherds
Numerous coarse sherds. Some with raised rope band incised with dashes.
Obsidian 4 pieces
[MN: 79]
[NB 85, p. 61, CWB:]
G II 0.25-0.50
Urfirnis Red 5 sherds
Black 36 sherds mostly a poor glaze often merely a wash
Patterned black on buff
3 sherds incl handle of small cup (linear)
Red on buff (linear) 1 sherd this is polished
Red brown on buff 1 small sherd
White on black 3 sherds
[MN= bases 1 flat 1raised]
There is a ground coat of U.F. black or black brown. On this a linear décor. In white narrow lines on 2 sherds
(1 is a flat base wide around bott. Of base with cross lines) wider lines on 1 sherd
NB85, p. 62
The two sherds with narrow lines resemble very much the light on dark sherds from Orchomenos and Hagia Marina.
Plain buff 18 herds chiefly unpolished or nearly so.
Black polished 11 sherds
Minyan (gray) 2
black 1 (?)
Great quantities of coarse ware
Period:   Late Helladic
Chronology:   mixed, EH, MH and LH, Greek?
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   -0.4--0.2m.