| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | Z 260 | |
| Title: | SAUCEBOAT WITH RAM'S HEAD SPOUT | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | Z | |
| Object Number: | 260 | |
| Description: | Sauceboat shape with horiztonal handle opposite of spout. Spout is not useable. Instead it comes to a rectangular point and is in the shape of a ram's head with two horns curving around the eyes (also added clay), making a U shape. From Blegen (Zygouries): "The shape is fairly low, and the spout is not extremely elevated. The pot has the usual raised base and horizontal handle. Its unusual feature is the spout, which has its end pinched out into a crudely formed ram's head. The snout is long and thin; the eyes are made plastically by large applied pellets of clay; the horns, springing from the top of the head, curve around the eyes on each side and project forward and upward beyond the line of the snout. The fabric is rather crude, though the shape of the pot is pretty irregular and the walls are fairly thin. (Blegen, Zygouries, pg 92) Compare with Z251. | |
| Decoration: | Surface brushed smooth and coated with black glaze which has almost completely vanished. | |
| Material: | Greenish gray clay | |
| Condition: | Fragment. large parts of body and rim RIP | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H (body): 0.061; H (at top of spout): 0.10; D: 0.079; L: 0.136; D of base: 0.033) | |
| Period: | Early Helladic | |
| Area: | Zygouries | |
| Findspot Description: | Zygouries | |
| Bibliography: | Zygouries pg 92-93; Pl X.2 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Blegen, Zygouries: a prehistoric settlement ... 1928 Monument: Zygouries Image: bw 1967 080 28 |
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