Corinth Object: CP 306
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 306
Title:   MATT PAINTED HYDRIA
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   306
Description:   Hydria. Body ovoid, short narrow neck, outturned rim. Two vertical strap handles with slight groove down center just below neck. Two horizontal round handles at mid-body. Buck (Hesp 1964) shape C 7
Decoration:   Exterior slipped? and painted. Two parallel bands just above horizontal handles. Main zone has a motif one large triangle with two triangles of descending size one in the other inside of the largest. One per side. The large triangles are divided by three vertical lines. Two parallel bands at neck, row of groups of three horizontal strokes, two parallel bands at rim. Beneath strap handles are groups of three vertical parallel lines.
Material:   Coarse very gritty green buff clay
Condition:   Fragment. c. 35 joining fragments preserve at least 1/2 body, 1/2 rim
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   Diam of rim 0.13, max.diam. 0.34
Dimensions Preserved:   max. p. H. 0.365
Area:   Korakou
Context:   NB84 B108 P69
Findspot Description:   "=Water jar from K VI" in Corinth Pottery Inventory I (CWB), p. 29 no. 5
Bibliography:   Blegen 1921, p. 23, fig. 32
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Blegen, Korakou; a prehistoric settlement ... 1921
Monument: Korakou
Basket: NB84 B108 P69