Corinth Object: Z 920
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   Z 920
Title:   LATE HELLADIC I BODY SHERD
Category:   Miscellaneous
Category Code:   Z
Object Number:   920
Description:   A body sherd. Nothing morecan be said about shape, other than the loops could suggest a cup. No real curvature prserved though.
Decoration:   Mainland polychrome style. Highly burnished Red surface, with pendant loops between two dark bands red band above. Likely just below rim of whatever shape it is. Buck 1966 motif 85.
Material:   Fine reddish claywith v few white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   2.5 yr 6/6 light ried
Condition:   Fragment. 1 body sherd
Manufacture:   Wheelmade
Period:   Late Helladic I (1650-1500 BC)
Chronology:   Originally dated MH in Zygouries, as Davis, 1979, points out the Mainland polychrome style is in fact almost diagnostic of LH I. Cf. Rutter 1989
Bibliography:   Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 134–135, fig. 127.4
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece