Collection: | | Corinth |
Type: | | Object |
Name: | | CP 2950 |
Title: | | LATE NEOLITHIC VESSEL: HANDLE, BODY |
Category: | | Pottery |
Category Code: | | CP |
Object Number: | | 2950 |
Description: | | Late Neolithic four-legged vessel in black burnished ware. Simple tapered rim; handle offset in 2 degrees with deep, broad groove (bevelled) to rear below. |
Decoration: | | Traces of filling crusted red paint at handle/body join. Rim set off by incised groove and 2 incised zigzag stripes: between the 2 are are shallow offset grooves meeting at an angle for handle base. Surfaces burnished; crusted red paint traces all over front incised zone. Possible traces of incised zigzag at bottom rear at edge of break. |
Material: | | Fine fabric. Scattered light adn dark inclusions. Fired light dull gray at core; going tannish buff (outside) or black surface layer (inside). Secondary burning? |
Condition: | | Fragment. Mended from 2 frgts., preserving proper right front rim and handle attachment area; broken all around except at rim. Chipped at break. |
Period: | | Late Neolithic |
Findspot Description: | | Kosmopoulos K-series. K 3 26 and K 3 30. Fragment K 3 30: "25/2" fragment from K 3 26: "M 31" and "25/2." Possibly from excavations for museum, 1931. |
Site: | | Corinth |
City: | | Ancient Corinth |
Country: | | Greece |
References: | | Image: digital 2020 0262
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