| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | NB81 B108 P244 | |
| Area: | Korakou | |
| Category: | Basket/zembil | |
| Notebook: | 81 | |
| Context: | 108 | |
| Page: | 244 | |
| Date: | 1915/06/16 | |
| Stratum: | Trench S X, south extension | |
| Notes: | S X 2.25-2.55 Minyan and Mattmalerei. Also half a dozen sherds with red designs on polished buff ground. Geometric designs. [p. vii] (Cont. from page 373 of this book) S X pottery S X 2.25-2.55 Minyan (a) light 1 sherd (b) dark 24 sherds (c) brown 1 sherd Polished ware [MN: Coarse polished] (imit of Minyan? [AddN: no]) 20 sherds black, black-brown, brown and 1 green Coarse ware nondescript unpainted 10 sherds Plain buff and red buff polished 10 sherds (some wheel made) and unpolished or practically so 7 sherds Mattmalerei black on buff 2 sherds Purple black on buff 1 sherd [AddN: all 3 fairly coarse] Urfirnis (a) glaze or wash 15 sherds (b) decorated: (1) black on buff or yellow buff 2 sherds (one has glaze outside 2 lines inside) (2) purple black on buff 3 sherds 1 has linear design and hatched diamonds (3) red on buff (polished) 1 large sherd of 4 pieces glued together and 1 smallish sherd from same pot probably = 2 sherds (this is Wace’s Blegen Ware) The Urfirnis in decorated type is here in all cases more or less lustrous. All sherds seem handmade. [Nakassis-James: according to Blegen, the best patterned ware comes from this level; Corinth Pottery Inventory I (CWB), p. 14] | |
| Period: | Middle Helladic | |
| Site: | Korakou | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | -2.55--2.25m. |
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