Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | Z 937 | |
Title: | MYCENAEAN SLENDER PIRIFORM PITHOID JAR | |
Category: | Miscellaneous | |
Category Code: | Z | |
Object Number: | 937 | |
Description: | Possible pithos (FF 6) based on coarseness of fabric, wall thickness, decoration (i.e., not fine ware, not cook ware). Possibly slender piriform pithos (FS 16) based on only attested use of decorative motif on non-table ware vessels. Furumark 1941, Mycenaean Pottery, p. 400. | |
Decoration: | Dark brown slip Folitate Band (FM 64, no. 24),on pale field. | |
Material: | Medium-coarse pink to very pale brown clay with common fine rounded black inclusions and common voids. | |
Munsell Color: | Exterior: 10YR 7/3–7/4 (very pale brown); interior: 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of body. Decoration greatly faded since initial publication. | |
Manufacture: | Matt Painted, WM | |
Weight Description: | 0.025 | |
Weight: | 0.025 | |
Period: | Late Helladic IIB | |
Chronology: | based on Furumark 1941, Mycenaean Pottery, pp. 396–400. | |
Area: | Zygouries | |
Context: | Zygouries | |
Bibliography: | Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 136–139, fig. 130.4 | |
Site: | Zygouries | |
City: | Agios Basilios | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Zygouries Basket: Zygouries |