Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 2948 | |
Title: | LATE NEOLITHIC VESSEL: LEG | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 2948 | |
Description: | Late Neolithic four-legged vessel. Foot flat yet angled. Leg rises at an inward angle, narrowly to calf-zone, then sweels rapidly to top, flattened ovoid in section. Back rough-smoothed. | |
Decoration: | Front pared and burnished. Decorated with deeply incised diagonal band with zigzags inside; deep groove at articulation with shallower vertical strokes at groove. | |
Material: | Semi coarse clay with abundant very large (pebbles?), large, and medium angular inclusions. Fired dark dull brownish red at core. Surface lighter orange. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving most of leg; broken all around at top. Foot chipped at toe. | |
Period: | Late Neolithic | |
Findspot Description: | Komopoulos K series, K 2 12. Possibly from excavations for museum, 1931. FIB 594, no. 92 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Image: digital 2020 0255 Image: digital 2020 0256 |