Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 3295 | |
Title: | LARGE MIDDLE HELLADIC MATT-PAINTED HANDLED BOWL | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 3295 | |
Old Number: | Gonia-032 | |
Description: | Bowl or large cup with wide-flaring body with slight convex profile, sharply articulated high rim H00.068 with concave profile flaring to fine lip; at least one vertical strap handle attached to base of rim. | |
Decoration: | Matt-painted decoration in black: exterior: body, possible zigzag pattern, one angle of which preserved, with triple parallel lines, point to rim; rim: pair of double vertical lines on either side of handle; for rest, band of X-pattern, made of row of upright triangles along bottom half of rim, with second row of pendant triangles from rim, points of each row touching; each triangle made of triple parallel lines, and open on one broad side; between them small pendant hatched triangle of which 1 partly preserved. Horizontal line at base of handle. Interior: 2 sets of triple lines pendant from lip on upper half of rim, placed opposite each other. | |
Material: | Fine greenish clay with rare tiny black inclusions, some voids. | |
Munsell Color: | Near 2.5Y 7.5/2 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Four joining frgts., ca. 1/5 body from above foot, ca. half rim, tiny part of lip; lower attachment for one handle. | |
Manufacture: | C04 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.096 | |
Dimensions Restored: | D00.138 (lip) | |
Period: | Middle Helladic | |
Chronology: | Middle Helladic | |
Area: | Gonia | |
Context: | Gonia, In pencil: J in circle, II outside | |
Provenance: | Corinthia | |
Site: | Gonia | |
City: | Hexamilia | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Gonia Image: bw 2002 048 14 Basket: Gonia, In pencil: J in circle, II outside |