Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 2905 | |
Title: | LATE NEOLITHIC VESSEL: LEG | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 2905 | |
Description: | Late Neolithic four-legged vessel. Black burnished (ill-fired). Leg broken at "upper calf" level. Leg rises evenly in swelling ovoid section to junction with body. Deep concavity at top inside. White wash inside concavity. | |
Decoration: | Outside front: burnished pearly black. Rear: well-smoothed to varying salmon, black, dark gray inner body. Outside front decoration: incised pattern of intersecting oblique cross-hatched broad bands. | |
Material: | Fine fabric. Frequent medium and large subrounded and angular inclusions. Some pock marks. Fired orangey buff at core. Thin, dark reddish-gray surface. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving leg; broken all around at top and at bottom. | |
Period: | Late Neolithic | |
Findspot Description: | kosmopoulos K-series, K15 126. "E 35" trench south of Temple E, 1935. Lot: K-series. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Image: digital 2020 0243 Image: digital 2020 0244 |