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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 308 | | Title: | | EARLY GEOMETRIC OINOCHOE | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 308 | | Description: | | Oinochoe with disk-foot (or false disk-foot?), with concave undersurface, attenuated globular body curving into round shoulder, conical neck tapering to widely flaring trefoil rim. Vertical strap handle attached to mid shoulder and rim. | | Decoration: | | Dull brown-black glaze. Undersurface reserved. Exterior black glazed with 3 reserved circumference lines at base of shoulder, on front of neck metopal panel with 3 reserved lines below and two above, framing triple vertical, zigzag with 3 reserved lines to right, 2 to left. Back of handle decorated with horizontal stripes, with single stripe down either edge. Inside of handle plain except for broad black swatch at base. Interior unglazed. | | Material: | | Fine yellowish buff clay and slip | | Condition: | | Complete profile. Three joining frgts., complete except for upper fourth of handle and back part of rim. Glaze crackled. | | Dimensions Actual: | | H. 0.237, Diam of foot 0.132, Diam. 0.176 | | Period: | | Early Geometric (900/875-850/825) | | Findspot Description: | | Tomb XVIII, Zygouries | | Bibliography: | | Zygouries, pg 69; pg. 174; fig. 171, page 175 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Blegen, Zygouries: a prehistoric settlement ... 1928
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