| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | Z 864 | |
| Title: | EARLY HELLADIC II JUG | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | Z | |
| Object Number: | 864 | |
| Description: | Closed vessel, almost certainly a jug of unprecise form with a rather globular body. | |
| Decoration: | Light-Painted Fine Pollished (Blegen's Class A, no. 2 "Yellow Mottled): monocrome interior except for interior of neck, mottled exterior and interior of neck in blue-gray, yellow, and red, similar to Z-863 (Blegen 1928, Zygouries, pp. 78–79, pl. IX.5). Double row of small incized/impressed dots running around the base of the neck; similar double row of dots forming a curve to a pattern in the open field below. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish brown clay without inclusions of voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slip: 5YR 5/1 (gray), 10YR 7/3 (very pale brown), and 2.5YR 6/8 (light red); interior: 5YR 5/3 (reddish brown); core: 2.5Yr 7/1 (light gray) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of upper body and base of neck, with slight incrustation and some chips on surface. | |
| Manufacture: | Light-Painted Fine Pollished, burnished, slipped, incized, HM | |
| Weight Description: | 0.0585 | |
| Weight: | 0.0585 | |
| Period: | Early Helladic | |
| Chronology: | EH II, based on Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 217. | |
| Bibliography: | Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 78–79, pl. IX.6 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece |
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