| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | Z 886 | |
| Title: | EARLY HELLADIC II BASIN | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | Z | |
| Object Number: | 886 | |
| Description: | Basin, Wiencke type 1 (Wiencke 2000, Lerna 4, pp. 538–539) with Wiencke type e thickened rim (Wiencke 2000, Lerna 4, p. 540). Similar to P67 in Wiencke 2000, Lerna 4, pp. 338–337, fig. II.5. | |
| Decoration: | Dark-on-Light Pattern Painted (Blegen's Ware C, class 1): dark brown festoon pattern on hanging from int. and ext. rim on pale brown field, reminiscent of later MH II festoon motif (Furumark 1941, Mycenaean Pottery, pp. 47, 227); dark brown wavy band on top of rim. | |
| Material: | Medium fine very pale brown clay with common fine round black inclusions and very rare medium angular white inclusions and rare very fine voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface and core: 10YR 7/4 (very pale brown); decoration: 10YR 4/3 (dark graying brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. | |
| Manufacture: | Dark-on-Light Pattern-Painted, HM | |
| Weight Description: | 0.043 | |
| Weight: | 0.043 | |
| Period: | Early Helladic | |
| Chronology: | EH II Early (EH IIA), based on Wiencke 2000, Lerna 4, p. 538. | |
| Bibliography: | Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 103, pl. XI.12 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece |
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