| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 2016 24 | |
| Title: | LATE NEOLITHIC BLACK-BURNISHED RITUAL VESSEL: LEG | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 2016 | |
| Object Number: | 24 | |
| Description: | Late Neolithic ritual vessel leg, as Phelps 2006 (The Neolithic Pottery Sequence in Southern Greece), p. 86-7. Leg tapers towards foot. Similar to CP-2895 and CP-2905. Partly hollow towards top, likely result of finger pinching; similar to CP-2891. Voids in fabric likely result of organic temper; many appear to be filled with calcium carbonate. | |
| Decoration: | Black-burnished. Two bands of incised crosshatching: lower band extends about 2/3 around foot. For incised cross-hatching motif, see Phelps 2006, Fig. 61.18. | |
| Material: | Fairly fine reddish yellow clay with rare small white spherical angular, rare small black spherical angular inclusions and frequent spherical to tubular voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 10YR 4/1 (dark gray); Core: 7.5YR 8/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining frgts., preserving most of leg; foot missing. Granular breaks at both ends; light gray discoloration all over clay at breaks. Surface mostly smooth; patches of white accretions and wear on burnishing. | |
| Weight Description: | 0.14961 | |
| Weight: | 0.14961 | |
| Period: | Late Neolithic | |
| Chronology: | according to Phelps 2006; based on comparanda | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context: | South Stoa, context 576, LOT 2016 049 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Stoa Image: digital 2016 3495 Image: digital 2020 0292 Image: digital 2020 0293 Basket: South Stoa, context 576 |
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