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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 936 | | Title: | | MYCENAEAN PITHOID JAR | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 936 | | Description: | | Probable pithoid jar (FF 7) based on coarseness of fabric, wall thickness, decoration, and only attested use of decorative motif on non-table ware vessels. Conical/Conical-Piriform (FS 16) or Conical-Piriform (FS 20) pithoid jar, based on attested FF 7 types with FM 14, type a, of appropriate date. Furumark 1941, Mycenaean Pottery, p. 278. | | Decoration: | | Dark brown to red (variant firing conditions) slip Palm I (FM 14, top type a, most similar to no. 1). No exact FM 14 no. attested: upper, thin leaves hang down around the larger lower leaves more than examples attested in Furumark. Similar to Blegen 1921, Korakou, p. 55, fig. 75.3. | | Material: | | Medium-coarse pink clay with common fine rounded, black inclusions and rare voids. | | Munsell Color: | | Exterior: 10YR 7/4 (very pale brown); interior: 5YR 7/3 (pink) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of body. Decoration slightly faded and worn away in places. | | Manufacture: | | Palace Style, Dark-on-Light, WM | | Weight Description: | | 0.151 | | Weight: | | 0.151 | | Period: | | Late Helladic IIA | | Chronology: | | based on Furumark 1941, Mycenaean Pottery, pp. 276–278. | | Context: | | NB987 P58 | | Bibliography: | | Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 136–137, fig. 129.3 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece |
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