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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | Z 362 | | Title: | | LATE HELLADIC III STIRRUP JAR | | Category: | | Miscellaneous | | Category Code: | | Z | | Object Number: | | 362 | | Description: | | Stirrup vase; body rises from a broad ring=base, spreads widely to the point of greatest diameter, which is relatively high, then curves sharply inward toward the handle, as a result of which the upper part of the pot has a nearly flat surface. (Blegen 1926, 167) | | Decoration: | | The upper part is decorated with a characteristic late Mycenaean pattern, including double hooks, double curving rows of dashes, and diamonds as space fillers; while below are the usual horizontal bands, broad and fine. On the disk of the handle are four concentric circles. The glaze is black in color and badly worn; where thin, as in the finer lines, it appears as lustrous brown | | Material: | | fine yellowish buff clay, smooth slip of the same color | | Condition: | | Complete or intact. Restored from many pieces; RIP | | Dimensions Actual: | | H: 0.099; max D= 0.11; D of base = 0.055 | | Weight Description: | | 0.190 (without plaster) | | Weight: | | 0.190 | | Period: | | Late Helladic IIIB | | Area: | | Zygouries | | Context: | | NB990 | | Findspot Description: | | Chamber tomb XXXIII, Zygouries | | Bibliography: | | Zygouries, fig. 48.20, page 58; page 61; page 167; fig. 162, page 168 | | Site: | | Zygouries | | City: | | Agios Basilios | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Blegen, Zygouries: a prehistoric settlement ... 1928
Monument: Zygouries
Basket: NB990
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