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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 309 | | Title: | | EARLY GEOMETRIC KRATER | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 309 | | Description: | | Krater with slightly flaring ring foot, broad resting surface, convex undersurface. Ovoid body with maximum diameter at 0.115-0.120, low vertical rim with outward thickened triangular lip, flat on top. Small vertical strap handle from maximum diameter to rim. | | Decoration: | | Dull brown-black glaze. Resting and undersurfaces reserved, exterior black-glazed, with reserved panel in center of either side just below rim, in handle zone: triple vertical zigzags with two reserved lines above and below, one at the ends. Interior thinly glazed. Horizontal stripes on back of handle, stripe along left edge. | | Material: | | Fine clay fired brown at core, tan at surface. A few fine voids. | | Condition: | | Complete profile. Six joining fragments, complete profile, complete except for one-third body and rim, one handle. Glaze worn. | | Dimensions Actual: | | H. 0.177, Diam. of foot 0.093, Diam. 0.248, Diam. of rim 0.223 | | Period: | | Early Geometric (900/875-850/825) | | Findspot Description: | | Tomb XVIII, Zygouries | | Bibliography: | | Zygouries pg 69; pg. 176; fig. 172 page 175 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Blegen, Zygouries: a prehistoric settlement ... 1928
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