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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 2778 | |
| Title: | LATE HELLADIC IIIC HYDRIA | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 2778 | |
| Description: | Hydria, FS 128. Globular? body. | |
| Decoration: | Exterior has been smoothed. Paint has almost entirely disappeared, but when then, seems to have held better. 3 bands on shoulder, 2 bands on lower body. Pendant from neck and partially crossing shoulder bands is large "tassel" with 3 thin straight arms. Pendant from shoulder bands and 90 degrees around the circumference of the vase from the first tassel is a second tassel with short fat curved arm. At a level slightly above lower body bands and roughly below first tassel is a thickening of the body wall indicating the imminence of a horizontal loop handle. | |
| Material: | Oatmeal fabric containing large amount of black grit which speckles the surface | |
| Munsell Color: | Fracture: 5 Y 6.5/1 (gray/light gray); interior surface: 5 Y 7.5/1 (light gray/ white); exterior: 5 Y 8/2 (white); paint: 10 YR 5/4 (yellowish brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. 11 joining body fragments. Full profile not preserved. None of base or lower body, ca. 25% of upper body, none of neck, rim or handles preserved. | |
| Period: | Late Helladic IIIC | |
| Area: | Korakou | |
| Context: | NB81 B43 P222 | |
| Site: | Korakou | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Korakou Basket: NB81 B43 P222 |
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