| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | Z 205 | |
| Title: | EARLY HELLADIC PAINTED ASKOID VESSEL | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | Z | |
| Object Number: | 205 | |
| Description: | Class C 1(b) type (Patterned ware, dark on light, free/open style) according to Blegen (Zygouries). Askoid vessel (american football shape) with spout and horizontal strap loop handle at apex. Squat askoid vessel with a basket handle, closed top and a vertical spout. Spreading widely from a very narrow and deelply concave base to a sharp angle, the sides curve back again to a sort of apex across which the handle is fairly symmetrically placed. The spout (RIP) was off to one side in the axis perpendicular to that of the handle. (Blegen, Zygouries, pg 105) | |
| Decoration: | hash and dot marks at maximum diameter followed by vertical thick bands spaced far apart with single dot in center. This zone is demarcated by small dots below (already described) and thick, larger dots above. Highest part of zone is just below spout. Small dots above larger dots. These continue around vessel, under and around the spout and handles, doubling when it encircles the handles. Handles have 3 thin lines extending across entire handle followed by dots in every other zone created by lines. From Blegen (Zygouries): "The painted decoration consists of broad careless lines dividing the zone into a series of narrow vertical panels of irregular width. The two on the side away from the spout are broader than the rest and have a line of dots running down through them from top to bottom. The other panels contain a single dot, or sometimes two, and have one or two at their tops between the ends of the dividing lines. The handle, finally, bears three rows of these painted dots. The incised decoration consists of four deeply cut lines or grooves along the top of the handle and four short ttransverse lines at its base. Below these latter is a large round impression. The angle between the upper and lower zones is marked all the way around by very short, mostly vertical, incisions, close together, but not evenly spaced. Just above these incisions a row of small, deeply punched holes runs around the vase. The base of each handle is enclosed by a double row of the same kind, from which a connection extends on each side to a similar ring around the base of the spout. The two bases of the handle are likewise connected on the side away frm the spout and there in each of the two large panels, a line of these punched holes curves down to join the row encircling the vase above the angle. The holes and the incised lines are fairly deep, but no trace of white filling was found in them. The paint is reddish brown in color, much crackled, and has no lustre left." (Blegen, Zygouries, pg 105) | |
| Material: | buff clay, brown and black paint | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Spout, parts of handle, and portions of body RIP. Less than half of vessel preserved | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H: 0.07; D: 0.147 | |
| Period: | Early Helladic | |
| Area: | Zygouries | |
| Findspot Description: | Zygouries | |
| Bibliography: | Zygouries page 105-106; pl XII.2 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Blegen, Zygouries: a prehistoric settlement ... 1928 Monument: Zygouries Image: bw 2002 050 13a |
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