| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1977 197 | |
| Title: | EH II RAM'S HEAD SAUCEBOAT | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1977 | |
| Object Number: | 197 | |
| Description: | "Spout" in form of a ram's head of a small sauceboat in fine slipped and glazed ware. Bowl-body relatively thick. Taper-rounded rim convergin from both sides into head in place of normal spout. | |
| Decoration: | Head of an animal, small, angular, blunt snouted and not very detailed but probably representing a ram: two tiny applied pats of clay on front near top represent either eyes or ears and a small strip of applied clay curling around back of skull and across and up sides to broken tips below the applied pats represents horns. Inside and outside smoothed, in part by paring, given a thin pale orange slip and then over that at least in part a dark brown glaze-mostly flaked away. | |
| Material: | Fine fabric, scattered small dark inclusions, trace mica. Fired evenly pale yellowish buff through. Slipped and glazed. | |
| Munsell Color: | Clay 2.5YR 8/2 white. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken at bottom and at tips of horns. Worn. | |
| Period: | Early Helladic | |
| Chronology: | II. Cf Zygouries. Pl. X, no. 260. Cleaned in dilute HCI. | |
| Area: | Temple Hill | |
| Context: | NB683 B171 P73 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple Hill Basket: NB683 B171 P73 Notebook Page: NB 683, spread 41 (p. 73) |
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