Corinth Object: CP 2875
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 2875
Title:   NEOLITHIC VESSEL: LEG
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   2875
Description:   Late Neolithic four-legged vessel. Black burnished ware. Foot is flattened and angled; leg rises in swelling ovoid section, canted inwards above a grooved articulation. Small part of body remains attached. Small but rather deep concavity at top of leg.
Decoration:   Face burnished black, rear rough-smoothed. In groove of body-leg articulation and to lesser degree, on preserved part of rear of leg, crusted red aint. Decorated in front with incised irregularly zigzagged "railway track" pattern.One incised line at viewer's upper left edge - possibly a leg foreleg?
Material:   Fine fabric, fired pale gray. Surface black to grayish.
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving leg; broken at top; back fractured, toe chipped.
Findspot Description:   Kosmopoulos K series, K8 78. Lot: K-series
Bibliography:   Kosmopoulos, "Prehistoric Inhabitation of Corinth"
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2020 0167
Image: digital 2020 0168