| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1978 216 | |
| Title: | LATE NEOLITHIC BLACK BURNISHED RITUAL VESSEL LEG | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1978 | |
| Object Number: | 216 | |
| Description: | About two-thirds of leg of four-legged so-called ritual vessel in black burnished ware. Leg slightly concave at preserved lower front as for flaring foot; otherwise and above, roughly conical (roughly circular in section). | |
| Decoration: | Rear pared smooth; front smooth and burnished to a mottled black and gray and tan finish. In top of leg decorated with incised hatched bands, a roughly horizontal band near preserved bottom, a second across middle above which are two intersecting curvilinear bands and a third roughly horizontal band at preserved top. In the depression in top of leg, crusted red paint. | |
| Material: | Fine clay, black and white inclusions, micaceous; fired blackish gray all through. Crustred red aint. | |
| Munsell Color: | Core near N3.5/. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., broken top and bottom, surface chipping. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | M.P.H. 0.073, M.P.W. 0.053 M. | |
| Period: | Late Neolithic | |
| Chronology: | An early phase. | |
| Area: | Temple Hill | |
| Context: | NB702 B45 P59 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple Hill Image: bw 1978 062 13 Image: digital 2020 0288 Image: digital 2020 0289 Basket: NB702 B45 P59 Notebook Page: NB 702, spread 34 (p. 59) |
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