Corinth Object: Z 940
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   Z 940
Title:   SHALLOW CUP WITH RING HANDLE
Category:   Miscellaneous
Category Code:   Z
Object Number:   940
Description:   Shallow cup with ring handle (FF 68, FS 237), with horizonal rim. Similar to Mycenaean Mus. Inv. 2733 (Mountjoy 1999, Regionaly Mycenaean Deocrated Pottery, pp. 93, 95, fig. 15.61).
Decoration:   Dark brown to orangy-red "Sacral Ivy" (FM 12, no. 25, leaf type c), on very pale brown field. Dark brown band on interior and exterior of lip. Similar to Mycenaean Mus. Inv. 2733 (Mountjoy 1999, Regionaly Mycenaean Deocrated Pottery, pp. 93, 95, fig. 15.61).
Material:   Very fine (probably) very light brown clay (misfiring has discolored).
Munsell Color:   2.5Y 7/2 (light gray - from misfiring)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of rim and body, miscolored from low oxydization during firing process, interior burn marks from possible use as lamp.
Manufacture:   Myc. Lustrous Decorated, LH I Style, WM
Weight Description:   0.016
Weight:   0.016
Period:   Late Helladic IIB
Chronology:   based on Furumark 1941, Mycenaean Pottery, pp. 268–274.
Bibliography:   Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 136–137, fig. 129.7
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece