Corinth Object: CP 283
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 283
Title:   LATE HELLADIC III DEEP BOWL
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   283
Description:   Deep bowl. Convex body rises to sharply flaring lip. Two round horizontal handles attached at widest diameter of body. FS 284
Decoration:   Exterior polished and painted. One band below decorative zone, main zone has a central triglyph (FM 6-7) and half-rosette (FM 74) flanked by panels (FM 75). One deep band at rim. Handles have three splashes. Interior painted monochrome. Similar to MDP group A fig. 189
Material:   Fine clay
Munsell Color:   Surface 5 Y 8/2 (white), Core 2.5 Y 8/2 (white), Paint 7.5 YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) to black
Condition:   Fragment. 26 joining fragments preserve 3/4 body, 3/4 rim, both handles
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   Diam. of rim 0.199-0.202
Dimensions Preserved:   max. p. H. 0.145
Chronology:   Rutter LH IIIB or transitional LH IIIC Early p.345
Area:   Korakou
Context:   NB84 B56 P46
    NB84 B50 P38
Findspot Description:   "Shore House" in pencil on inside; ="deep bowl .16 high .20 diam" [shore house] in Corinth Pottery Inventory I (CWB), p. 54 no. 71
Bibliography:   Blegen 1921, p. 60 fig. 83; Furumark FS 284:24; Rutter 1974 p. 338, no. 13
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Blegen, Korakou; a prehistoric settlement ... 1921
Publication: Furumark, The Chronology of Mycenaean Po... 1941
Publication: Rutter, The late Helladic IIIB and IIIC ... 1974
Monument: Korakou
Images (5)
Basket: NB84 B50 P38
Basket: NB84 B56 P46