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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 897 | | Title: | | EARLY HELLADIC III TANKARD | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 897 | | Description: | | Tankard with biconical piriform body (Rutter form III, type 2), flaring rim; vertical strap handles rising from shoulder and attached at bottom of point of max. d. (Rutter 1995, Lerna 3, p. 284). Similar to Blegen 1921, Korakou, pp. 9–10, fig. 10 right. | | Decoration: | | EH Patterned Ware (C) Class Ia (Dark-on-Light; pattern limited to zones). Red slip over upper and lower body; central buff slip zone with red slip horizontal band of parallel chevrons framed above and below by four horizontal lines (Rutter pattern XIII, motif 2); four thin vertical lines (Ruttern pattern II) on handle back. Rutter 1995, Lerna III, pp. 497–499, 587–588. | | Condition: | | Fragment. Six joining frgts., preserving 1/8 of rim, 1/3 of body, most of one handle. | | Period: | | Early Helladic | | Chronology: | | EH III, based on Rutter 1995, Lerna 3, p. 284. | | Bibliography: | | Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 103, pl. XIII.2 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece |
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