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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 890 | | Title: | | EARLY HELLADIC III PYXIS | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 890 | | Description: | | Pyxis (Rutter form XVIII, type 1) with plain flaring rim (not preserved) with two pierced lug handles (Rutter 1995, Lerna 3, p. 427). Similar to Lerna 4 P1205, in Rutter 1995, Lerna 3, pp. 234–235, fig. 99. | | Decoration: | | Dark-on-Light Pattern Painted (Blegen's Ware C, class 1): dark brown Rutter pattern II Vertical Lines, motif 6 (Rutter 1995, Lerna 3, p. 498) on pale brown slipped field. Similar to Lerna IV P1205, in Rutter 1995, Lerna 3, pp. 234–235, fig. 99. | | Material: | | Very fine very pale brown clay with very rare, rounded, white inclusions, and no voids. | | Munsell Color: | | Field: 2.5YR 8/2 (pale brown); interior and core: 2.5YR 7/3 (pale brown); decoration: 7.5YR 4/2 (brown) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of lower body and of handle, slip has fallen away in most places leaving only shadow. | | Manufacture: | | Dark-on-Light Pattern Painted, HM | | Weight Description: | | 0.0135 | | Weight: | | 0.0135 | | Period: | | Early Helladic | | Chronology: | | EH III, based on Rutter 1995, Lerna 3, p. 429. | | Bibliography: | | Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 101–103, fig. 88.6 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece |
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