Corinth Object: CP 292
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 292
Title:   EARLY HELLADIC III PEDESTAL FOOTED CUP
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   292
Description:   Pedestal footed cup. Fairly tall stem, convex body pierced by 3 holes at bottom of body.
Decoration:   Exterior slipped and burnished. Incised decoration on bottom of body composed of pairs of parallel irregular zigzags filled by single row of incised dots. In each triangle formed by the zigzag and the top of the stem are 3 dots forming a triangle. Between pairs of zigzags are pierced holes.
Material:   Very coarse and gritty brown clay
Munsell Color:   Surface between 7.5 YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) and 7.5 YR 5/1 (grey), Core 5 YR 5/4 (reddish brown)
Condition:   Fragment. 2 joining fragments preserve c. 1/6 of body, 1/3 of handle
Manufacture:   HM
Dimensions Actual:   Diam. of stem 0.045
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.116
Period:   Early Helladic
Chronology:   EH III (based on Rutter 1982)
Area:   Korakou
Context:   Korakou, unknown
Findspot Description:   no findspot on vessel; "? Minyan House?" according to 1970 Korakou pottery inventory I
Bibliography:   Rutter 1982, p. 471, cat. 41, pl. 100.
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Korakou
Basket: Korakou, unknown