Corinth Object: Z 861
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   Z 861
Title:   EARLY HELLADIC II BEAKED JUG
Category:   Miscellaneous
Category Code:   Z
Object Number:   861
Description:   Beaked jug, not enough preserved to identify preceise form.
Decoration:   Light-Painted Fine Pollished (Blegen's Class A, no. 2 "Yellow Mottled): mottled exterior in blue-gray and orangy-yellow, similar to Z-860 (Blegen 1928, Zygouries, pp. 78–79, pl. IX.2). Two horiztonal, round ridged, raised plastic bands around base of neck, similar to Z-860 (Blegen 1928, Zygouries, pp. 78–79, pl. IX.2).
Material:   Very fine pink clay without inclusions of voids
Munsell Color:   Slip: 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) and 5YR 6/1 (gray); interior: 5YR 7/4 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of upper body and base of neck.
Manufacture:   Light-Painted Fine Pollished, burnished, slipped, plastic decoration, HM
Weight Description:   0.0325
Weight:   0.0325
Period:   Early Helladic
Chronology:   EH II, based on Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 217.
Bibliography:   Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 78–79, pl. IX.3
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece