Corinth Object: CP 337
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 337
Title:   LATE HELLADIC III COOKING POT WITH RAISED STRIPS
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   337
Description:   Hole-mouthed pithos. Large very slightly hollowed base, convex cyclindrical body, carination immediately below rounded inturned lip.
Decoration:   Exterior and interior burnished. Just below the carination and just above the base are single, thin applied plastic bands running horizontally around the entire vessel; a third applied band of the same width describes a zigzag filling the space between the two horizontal bands.
Material:   Coarse clay
Munsell Color:   Exterior surface: mottled, 10 yr 6/3 (pale brown) to 2.5 YR 5/6 (red). interior surface 10 yr 6/4 (light yellowish bronw).
Condition:   Complete profile. 28 joining fragments preserve all of base, 1/2 of body, 1/2 of rim
Manufacture:   HM
Dimensions Actual:   Diam. of rim 0.13, Diam. at carination 0.161, Max. Diam. 0.168, Diam. of base 0.126, H. 0.150-158
Period:   Late Helladic IIIC Early
Chronology:   dated based on Rutter 1974, p. 553
Area:   Korakou
Context:   NB84 B74 P56
Findspot Description:   Labelled in pencil at bottom of interior "Beirut II"
Bibliography:   Blegen 1921, fig. 104.1; Furumark 1941a FS 3.1, Rutter 1974, p. 399 no. 1, Jung and Mehofer 2013, fig. 7.4.
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 B74 P56