Corinth Object: Z 860
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   Z 860
Title:   EARLY HELLADIC II JUG
Category:   Miscellaneous
Category Code:   Z
Object Number:   860
Description:   Jug of uncertain type. Possibly beaked type based on angle between rim and raised rib at base of neck.
Decoration:   Light-Painted Fine Pollished (Blegen's Class A, no. 2 "Yellow Mottled): monocrome interior except for interior of rim, mottled exterior and interior of rim in blue-gray and yellow, similar to Z-860 (Blegen 1928, Zygouries, pp. 78–79, pl. IX.2). Single horiztonal, sharply ridged, raised plastic band around base of neck, similar to Z-861 (Blegen 1928, Zygouries, pp. 78–79, pl. IX.3).
Material:   Very fine gray clay without inclusions or voids.
Munsell Color:   Surface: 2.5YR 8/3 (pale brown) and 5YR 6/1 (gray); core:5Y 6/1 (gray)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of rim and neck.
Manufacture:   Light-Painted Fine Pollished, burnished, slipped, plastic decoration, HM
Weight Description:   0.015
Weight:   0.015
Period:   Early Helladic
Chronology:   EH II, based on Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 217.
Bibliography:   Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 78–79, pl. IX.2
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece