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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 251 | | Title: | | EARLY HELLADIC SAUCEBOAT WITH RAM'S HEAD | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 251 | | Description: | | Sauceboat but with ram's head at end instead of spout. Ram's head comes to a rectangular point with two horns dipping to middle of face and running up to just above tip of nose. Compare with Z260. From Blegen (Zygouries): "It has the customary raised base and a badly formed thick lipsided horizontal handle. The body, which was much distorted by warping and exhibits no symmetry, curves upward somewhat steeply toward the spout. The latter is pinched out at its end in the same fashion as in the preceding example and rudely shaped to represent a ram's head. The snout is slender and more abbreviated than that of Z260; the horns, curved in the same way, are thicker and shorter and meet across the bridge of the snout. There are no eyes. (Blegen, Zygouries, 93) | | Decoration: | | Surface fairly smooth and is coated inside and out with a thin reddish brown glaze, shading to darker hues in a lightly mottled effect. (Blegen, Zygouries, 93) | | Material: | | Clay: gray at core, brick-red at surface | | Condition: | | Complete or intact. Only small pieces RIP; Reconstructed from 17 fragments | | Dimensions Actual: | | H (body): 0.07; H (to top of spout): 0.117; D: 0.076; L (with handle): 0.115 | | Period: | | Early Helladic | | Findspot Description: | | Floor of great room of the House of the Pithoi, Zygouries | | Bibliography: | | Zygouries pg 12; pg 93; plate X.1 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Blegen, Zygouries: a prehistoric settlement ... 1928
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