Corinth Object: CP 2948
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