Corinth Object: Z 878
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   Z 878
Title:   EARLY HELLADIC OPEN VESSEL
Category:   Miscellaneous
Category Code:   Z
Object Number:   878
Description:   Open 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 black slipped field, monochrome interior.
Material:   Fine, pinkish gray clay with very rare, very fine, rounded black and white inclusions and rare, very fine voids.
Munsell Color:   Bands: 7.5YR 8/2 (pinkish white); field: 7.5YR 3/1 (very dark gray); interior: 7.5YR 5/3–5/4 (brown); core: 7.5YR 6/2 (pinkish gray)
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:   0.013
Weight:   0.013
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.3
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece