Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 133 | |
Title: | EARLY HELLADIC III PYXIS | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 133 | |
Description: | Small Pyxis. Flat base, squat globular body. Very short wide neck and rounded outturned lip. Lip pierced with two holes just above one handle. Two small horizontal lug handles at widest part of body, each with two vertical pierced holes. Similar to Lerna vol. III, form XVIII | |
Decoration: | Exterior surface coated with semi-lustrous paint (7.5 YR 5/6 (strong brown) to 7.5 YR 4/1(dark gray)), possibly Urfirnis. | |
Material: | Very coarse gritty clay with black inclusions | |
Munsell Color: | Surface 5 Y 6/2 (light olive grey), Core 7.5 YR 6/2 (pinkish grey) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. 19 joining fragments preserve all of base, 90% of body, 1/3 of rim, 2 handles | |
Manufacture: | HM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.10, Diam of base 0.07 | |
Dimensions Restored: | Diam. of rim 0.095 | |
Period: | Early Helladic | |
Chronology: | EH III | |
Area: | Korakou | |
Context: | NB81 B54 P226 | |
Findspot Description: | no findspot recorded on vessel; = "Jar with lug handle from P X" in Corinth Pottery Inventory I (CWB), p. 11 no. 7 | |
Bibliography: | Rutter Lerna vol. III, p. 429, table S.94d | |
Site: | Korakou | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Korakou Images (6) Basket: NB81 B54 P226 Notebook Page: NB 81, spread 91 (pp. 362 - 363) |