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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | CP 2787 | | Title: | | LATE HELLADIC IIIB KRATER | | Category: | | Pottery | | Category Code: | | CP | | Object Number: | | 2787 | | Description: | | Krater? FS 281-2? Maximum diameter near base of zone, thickening of body at one point suggests imminence of horizontal loop handle. | | Decoration: | | Exterior surface has flaked off in places in a manner suggesting it is slip. If there was a slip, it was presumably a self-slip. Some parts of paint show burning. Central panel (5) with fill by horizontal rows separated by 2 horizontal lines- from bottom are dot-centered lozenges, dots, and double concentric lozenges. Flanking this panel on each side is a triglyph and half rosette motif consisting of 4-5 vertical lines interrupted at the center by a depressed ellipse. On the outside of these on each side is a complex panel consisting of (from inside out) a vertical line with attached spaced outlined solid semicircles, pointing in, a pair of vertical lines enclosing a vertical row of lozenges (plain on one side and dot-centered on the other), 4-6 vertical lines, and a final line edged by a vertical row of joining semicircles. 3 bands at base of zone. | | Material: | | Fine clay with a fair amount of small and medium sized grit | | Munsell Color: | | Fracture, interior and exterior surfaces: grayish or 7.5 YR 7/6 (reddish yellow); paint 2.5 YR 5/8 (red) | | Condition: | | Fragment. 5 sherds mended into 4 non-joining fragments. Full profile not preserved, only from a little below rim to a little below base of zone. Very small percentage of total vase preserved. | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H: 0.16 | | Dimensions Restored: | | D (max): 0.36 | | Period: | | Late Helladic III | | Chronology: | | LH III B? | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Image: digital 2015 1380
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