Corinth Object: Z 53
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   Z 53
Title:   EARLY HELLADIC SAUCER
Category:   Miscellaneous
Category Code:   Z
Object Number:   53
Description:   Coarse ware. Shallow bowl with flat base, no handles, widely spaced pair of conical projections on each side at the rim. It may have been employed as a sort of chafing dish or perhaps rather on the ebdience of the discoloration, as a lid to cover a large cooking pot. The flat base was carelessly made, as a result of which the bowl is lopsided.
Decoration:   None
Material:   Brick-red clay, smoked and blackened
Condition:   Complete or intact. Intact
Dimensions Actual:   D: 0.205; H: 0.065-0.051 (lopsided)
Period:   Early Helladic
Findspot Description:   Floor of the House of the Pithoi, Zygouries
Bibliography:   Zygouries page 112; fig 102 right, page 113
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Blegen, Zygouries: a prehistoric settlement ... 1928
Image: bw 1998 064 30
Image: bw 2004 024 26