Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 246 | |
Title: | LATE HELLADIC IIA ROUNDED ALABASTRON | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 246 | |
Description: | Squat Alabastron. Large flat base, squat rounded body, very low narrow neck with outturned rum. Three round horizontal handles (two remain) attahcd on sloping shoulder. FS 83 | |
Decoration: | Exterior slipped and painted. One band at base below main zone. Main zone has a thick curving band (FM 15 rock pattern I, and the background to base of neck is filled with parallel rows of dots. Under each handle is a W-shaped line. Neck, rim and handles painted solid. Bottom has a cross in square design made of double bands with eight dots one in each open space. | |
Material: | Fine hard clay | |
Munsell Color: | Surface: 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown), paint 7.5 YR 3/1 (very dark grey) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. 32 joining fragments preserve 2/3 base, 1/3 body, 5% rim, 2 (of 3) handles | |
Manufacture: | HM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.073, diam. of base 0.17 | |
Dimensions Restored: | max. diam. 0.173, diam. of rim 0.085 | |
Period: | Late Helladic II | |
Chronology: | based on motif and shape | |
Area: | Korakou | |
Context: | NB83 B99 P33 | |
NB83 B98 P33 | ||
Bibliography: | Blegen 1921, p. 52, fig. 70 no. 2 | |
Site: | Korakou | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Blegen, Korakou; a prehistoric settlement ... 1921 Monument: Korakou Images (7) Basket: NB83 B98 P33 Basket: NB83 B99 P33 |