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 |