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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 888 | | Title: | | EARLY HELLADIC II PYXIS | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 888 | | Description: | | Pyxis, with globular body and low vertical rim (Wiencke 2000, Lerna 4, pp. 581–582). Similar to P141 in Wiencke 2000, Lerna 4, pp. 346–347, fig. II.8. | | Decoration: | | Dark-on-Light Pattern Painted (Blegen's Ware C, class 1): light brown unslipped surface filled with dark reddish brown Wiencke motif 14a Dots (Wiencke 2000, Lerna 4, p. 612, fig. II.99) . Similar to Z-8 (Blegen 1928, Zygouries, pp. 104, fig. 89). | | Material: | | Very fine very pale brown clay with rare very fine rounded black inclusions and very rare very fine voids. | | Munsell Color: | | Decoration: 2.5YR 4/3 (reddish brown); surface and core: 10YR 7/4 (very pale brown) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving ca. 40% of rim and part of upper body. Slip of decoration heavily worn off. | | Manufacture: | | Dark-on-Light Pattern Painted, HM | | Weight Description: | | 0.010 | | Weight: | | 0.010 | | Period: | | Early Helladic | | Chronology: | | EH II Late (EH IIB), based on Wiencke 2000, Lerna 4, p. 615. | | Bibliography: | | Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 101–103, fig. 88.3 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece |
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