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| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 246 | |
| Title: | LATE HELLADIC IIA ROUNDED ALABASTRON | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 246 | |
| Description: | Squat Alabastron. Large flat base, squat rounded body, very low narrow neck with outturned rum. Three round horizontal handles (two remain) attahcd on sloping shoulder. FS 83 | |
| Decoration: | Exterior slipped and painted. One band at base below main zone. Main zone has a thick curving band (FM 15 rock pattern I, and the background to base of neck is filled with parallel rows of dots. Under each handle is a W-shaped line. Neck, rim and handles painted solid. Bottom has a cross in square design made of double bands with eight dots one in each open space. | |
| Material: | Fine hard clay | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown), paint 7.5 YR 3/1 (very dark grey) | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. 32 joining fragments preserve 2/3 base, 1/3 body, 5% rim, 2 (of 3) handles | |
| Manufacture: | HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.073, diam. of base 0.17 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | max. diam. 0.173, diam. of rim 0.085 | |
| Period: | Late Helladic II | |
| Chronology: | based on motif and shape | |
| Area: | Korakou | |
| Context: | NB83 B99 P33 | |
| NB83 B98 P33 | ||
| Bibliography: | Blegen 1921, p. 52, fig. 70 no. 2 | |
| Site: | Korakou | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Blegen, Korakou; a prehistoric settlement ... 1921 Monument: Korakou Images (7) Basket: NB83 B98 P33 Basket: NB83 B99 P33 |
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