Corinth Object: Z 876
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   Z 876
Title:   EARLY HELLADIC CLOSED VESSEL
Category:   Miscellaneous
Category Code:   Z
Object Number:   876
Description:   Closed vessel. Not enough preserved to identify shape.
Decoration:   Light-on-Dark Pattern Painted (Blegen's Ware C, class 2): three parallel very light brown bands on red slipped field.
Material:   Fine pink clay without inclusions or voids.
Munsell Color:   Field: 10R 4/4 (weak red); bands: 7.5YR 7/4 (pink); interior: 7.5YR 7/4 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of body. Surface has flaked off in places, quite worn.
Manufacture:   Light-on-Dark Pattern-Painted, HM
Weight Description:   0.009
Weight:   0.009
Period:   Early Helladic
Chronology:   EH II–III. Rutter 1995, Lerna 3, p. 18. Not enough preserved to identify shape or motif so as to date more preceisely.
Bibliography:   Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 103, pl. XI.1
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece