Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 2969 | |
Title: | LATE NEOLITHIC RITUAL VESSEL: BODY, HANDLE | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 2969 | |
Description: | Late Neolithic four-legged vessel, black burnished ware. Body curves convexly, handle begins to rise in rounded-triangular section. | |
Decoration: | Interior surface well-smoothed with copious red and possibly white paint. Exterior black burnished with white paint on inner face of handle and band at junction of back of handle and body. | |
Material: | Semi-fine fabric with many dark inclusions, lightly micaceous. Fired dark grayish brown at core going to very thin black surface layers. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small part of upper left body and handle stump. Red and white paint crusted. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.040, W. 0.051 | |
Period: | Late Neolithic | |
Chronology: | early phase | |
Area: | Early Excavations | |
Context: | NB594 P113 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Early Excavations Image: digital 2020 0120 Image: digital 2020 0121 |