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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 883 | | Title: | | SAUCEBOAT (?) | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 883 | | Description: | | Open vessel on uncertain shape. The ovoid rim shape suggests a Sauceboat, but the walls of the vessel are quite thick and no comparanda for sauceboats with horizontal round handles on the middle of the body, rather than the usual spot along the rim is attested, nor is its position on what would seeminly be the side rather than the rear of the vessel. The context of where this sherd came from needs to be investigated to confirm whether it belongs to this period or is some Neolithic form. | | Decoration: | | Dark-on-Light Pattern Painted (Blegen's Ware C, class 1): brown Wiencke motif 13a Zigzag (Wiencke 2000, Lerna 4, p. 613, fig. II.100) on very pale brown field, on inside and outside of rim. Top of rim painted with solid brown band. | | Material: | | Very fine very pale brown clay with very rare very fine rounded black inclusions and rare very fine and fine voids. | | Munsell Color: | | Decoration: 10YR 3/4 (dark yellowish brown) to 5/6 (yellowish brown); slipped field: 10YR 7/4 (very pale brown); core: 10YR 7/1 (light gray) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Two frgts., preserving part of rim and base of handle. | | Manufacture: | | Dark-on-Light Pattern-Painted, burnished, HM | | Weight Description: | | 0.029 | | Weight: | | 0.029 | | Period: | | Early Helladic | | Chronology: | | EH II, based on Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 103. Possibly problematic. | | Bibliography: | | Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 103, pl. XI.9 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece |
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