Corinth Object: Z 937
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   Z 937
Title:   MYCENAEAN SLENDER PIRIFORM PITHOID JAR
Category:   Miscellaneous
Category Code:   Z
Object Number:   937
Description:   Possible pithos (FF 6) based on coarseness of fabric, wall thickness, decoration (i.e., not fine ware, not cook ware). Possibly slender piriform pithos (FS 16) based on only attested use of decorative motif on non-table ware vessels. Furumark 1941, Mycenaean Pottery, p. 400.
Decoration:   Dark brown slip Folitate Band (FM 64, no. 24),on pale field.
Material:   Medium-coarse pink to very pale brown clay with common fine rounded black inclusions and common voids.
Munsell Color:   Exterior: 10YR 7/3–7/4 (very pale brown); interior: 7.5YR 7/4 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of body. Decoration greatly faded since initial publication.
Manufacture:   Matt Painted, WM
Weight Description:   0.025
Weight:   0.025
Period:   Late Helladic IIB
Chronology:   based on Furumark 1941, Mycenaean Pottery, pp. 396–400.
Area:   Zygouries
Context:   Zygouries
Bibliography:   Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 136–139, fig. 130.4
Site:   Zygouries
City:   Agios Basilios
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Zygouries
Basket: Zygouries