Corinth Object: C 1978 163
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1978 163
Title:   EN WHITE WARE POTTERY WITH PELLETS
Category Code:   C
Year:   1978
Object Number:   163
Description:   Single small body sherd from probable, closed vessel in white ware. Slight convex curvature. Thickening towards most acute angle of sherd suggest beads or ain a diagonal row, possibly on shoulder of jar. EN, possibly non-local in origin.
Cf. C-59-241
Note: it has been suggested that white ware is made of pure kaolin.
Decoration:   Inside smoothed outside, thin cursory burnishing strokes, unevenly applied, parallel to a row of small, irregularly oval to round, applied plastic beads or pellets. Three preserved.
Material:   Fine clay, with small dark inclusions, fired somewhat powdery to touch, ure white all through.
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., broken all around; somewhat worn.
Dimensions Preserved:   M.P.Dim. 0.033, M.P.Th. (Without pellets) 0.005 m.
Area:   Temple Hill
Context:   NB702 B8 P13
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Temple Hill
Image: bw 1978 063 23
Basket: NB702 B8 P13
Notebook Page: NB 702, spread 11 (pp. 12 - 13)