Corinth Object: CP 336
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 336
Title:   LATE HELLADIC IIIC HANDMADE AND BURNISHED JAR WITH 2 LUGS
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   336
Description:   Flat base, conical lower body, slightly rounded upper body; large slightly outward thickened rim; two broad, crudely shaped, horizontal lugs placed ca 1/3 of way down body.
Decoration:   Lightly and irregularly burnsihed so as to produce a lustrous surface and burnishing marks running in all directions.
Material:   Coarse clay with large amount of all sizes of grit; surface covered with fine cracks
Munsell Color:   Surface: variable, brown to black
Condition:   Complete profile. 44 fragments preserve complete profile
Manufacture:   HM
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.178-0.187, Diam. of rim 0.258-0.263
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. of base 0.165
Weight Description:   1.730 (weighed 2006 without plaster)
Weight:   1.730
    2006
Period:   Late Helladic IIIC
Chronology:   LH IIIB or C: date based on Rutter 1974, p. 128, mostly based on context
Area:   Korakou
Context:   NB84 B127 P81
Findspot Description:   incised in plaster used to restore vase at center of interior "L II"; ="coarse cooking pot from L II 1916" in Corinth Pottery Inventory I (CWB), p. 53 no. 61
Bibliography:   Blegen 1921, p. 71, fig 104.2, Furumark 1941a FS 5.1, Rutter 1974, p. 113 no. 2
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 (4)
Basket: NB84 B127 P81