Corinth Object: CP 212
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 212
Title:   LATE HELLADIC IIB SQUAT JUG
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   212
Description:   Squat Jug. Globular body, short narrow neck and outward flaring rim. One vertical strap handle attached on shoulderand just above maximum diameter. FS 87
Decoration:   Exterior slipped and painted. Band below decorative zone. Main zone has large flower, probably a lily, with almost spiral petals and a half moon stamen, stem is a curving line which ends in another flower. Handle has a candy stripe pattern.
Material:   Fine hard pink buff clay
Munsell Color:   Surface 7.5 YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Paint 10 R 4/6 (red)
Condition:   Fragment. 14 joining fragments preserve none of base, 1/2 of body, all of rim, all of handle
Manufacture:   HM
Dimensions Actual:   Diam of rim 0.056
Dimensions Preserved:   max. p. H. 0.078
Dimensions Restored:   max. Diam of body 0.098, H. 0.08
Period:   Late Helladic IIA
Chronology:   based on FM
Area:   Korakou
Context:   NB83 B98 P33
    NB83 B99 P33
Findspot Description:   ="similar shape [to CP 210] red on pink lilies (?) from EA VI" in Corinth Pottery Inventory I (CWB), p. 47 no. 3; see findspot of CP 210
Bibliography:   Blegen 1921, p. 53, fig. 71 no. 1; Furumark 1941A 87:12
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Blegen, Korakou; a prehistoric settlement ... 1921
Publication: Furumark, The Chronology of Mycenaean Po... 1941
Monument: Korakou
Images (5)
Basket: NB83 B98 P33
Basket: NB83 B99 P33