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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 576 | | Title: | | PITHOS | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 576 | | Description: | | Coarse ware (class D) according to Blegen (Zygouries). Pithos. Stands on very small base. Four large bosses, approximately evenly spaced interrupt a lower rope band and the appearance of this arrangement supports the explanation suggested for the purpose of the bosses in entry for Z575. | | Decoration: | | The upper part of the vessel is decorated with two plastic horizontal bands which bear slanting impressions of a thumb or of a blunt instrument made in such a way as to give the effect of the twisted strands of a rope. Thin black glaze with reddish mottling here and there. Pain t badly cracked and worn. | | Material: | | Brick-red clay, gray at core | | Condition: | | Fragment. Mostly preserved except for upper portions, including all of rim; some pieces RIP | | Dimensions Actual: | | Base D: 0.15. Wall thickness: 0.01 to nearly 0.02 | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H: 0.81 | | Dimensions Restored: | | H: 1.20 | | Period: | | Early Helladic | | Findspot Description: | | House of the Pithoi, east wall of great room | | Bibliography: | | Zygouries, page 11-12; Fig 112; Fig 112, page 120; page 119-120 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Blegen, Zygouries: a prehistoric settlement ... 1928
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