Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 285 | |
Title: | LATE HELLADIC IIIC STEMMED KRATER | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 285 | |
Description: | Krater. Shallow spreading foot, short wide stem hollowed underneath. Deep hemi-spherical bowl, outward thickened squared rim. Handle attachments suggest vertical strap handles from rim to max. diameter. FS 10 - stemmed krater | |
Decoration: | Exterior slipped, polished and painted. Foot has two parallel bands, upper foot and stem painted solid. Three parallel bands below decorative zone between handles. Main zone has a central motif of either a voluted Flower (FM 18) with panelled stem or a stemmed spiral (FM 51), flanked by a Tricurved Arch (FM 62). The other side is the same except that the panelled stem is filled with horizontal bars and volutes or spirals are outlined with dashes. One thick band from upper body to top of rim. Traces of loops around lower handle attachments. Interior monochrome. | |
Material: | Fine clay with occasional large pieces of grit | |
Munsell Color: | Surface 3.75 8/3 (pale yellow), Paint 7.5 YR 5/8 (strong brown) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. forty joining fragments preserve c. 55% of base, body and rim, handle attachments | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.255-0.260, Diam. of base 0.162 | |
Dimensions Restored: | Diam. of rim 0.315, max. diam. 0.318 | |
Period: | Late Helladic IIIA2 | |
Chronology: | date based on MDP | |
Area: | Korakou | |
Context: | NB84 B56 P46 | |
NB84 B50 P38 | ||
Findspot Description: | ="large deep bowl on raised base" [shore house] in Corinth Pottery Inventory I (CWB), p. 54 no. 72 | |
Bibliography: | Blegen 1921, p. 65, fig. 91; Rutter 1974 p. 325, no. 3; MDP fig. 182, no. 1 | |
Site: | Korakou | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Blegen, Korakou; a prehistoric settlement ... 1921 Publication: Rutter, The late Helladic IIIB and IIIC ... 1974 Monument: Korakou Images (5) Basket: NB84 B50 P38 Basket: NB84 B56 P46 |