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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 96 | | Title: | | MATT-PAINTED JUG | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 96 | | Description: | | Jug with cutaway neck, class 1 (Matt-painted ware) (Blegen). This larger jug from the west part of the hill shows great care in its manufacture. The jug has a flat base, round body, and almost cylindrical neck, which is carried up to form a spout on one side. A heavy round handle swings down from the back of the neck to the broadest part of the body. The base is not perfectly flat, and thejust does not stand well. | | Decoration: | | Surface is slipped and polished. Matt-painted. Two ribbon bands of dull violet-black paint around the middle of the vase and a similar pair at the base of the neck mark off a zone of decoration which is divided into four metopes by groups of parallel vertical lines, alternately three and four in number. The panels, which are al different sizes, were left blank. The band marking the top of the zone has a fine wavy line boearding it below. Two plain bands follow the line of the rim, and the front of the spout bears two finer vertical lines. A single ribbon line runs along the upper side of the handle, separating into two curved ends below. | | Material: | | Buff clay | | Condition: | | Complete or intact. Part of one side missing, RIP | | Dimensions Actual: | | H: 0.20; Max D: 0.147 | | Period: | | Middle Helladic | | Findspot Description: | | Tomb I, Zygouries | | Bibliography: | | Zygouries fig 125, page 130; page 131 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Blegen, Zygouries: a prehistoric settlement ... 1928
Image: bw 2002 050 23a
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