| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | ZST 4 | |
| Title: | EARLY HELLADIC CELT | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | ZST | |
| Object Number: | 4 | |
| Old Number: | Z 4 | |
| Description: | Celt, roughly triangular in shape, with one missing corner. Corner shows polishing suggesting use or re-working after breaking in antiquity. Oval to nearly rectangular in section. Thickness tapers in all directions. Ground to a cutting edge. Blegen puts in his second type of celts, which are small, approximately "heart-shaped", and "much more neatly worked than those of the first type, beautifully polished, and ground from both sides to a sharp edge" (Blegen 1928, Zygouries, 199). | |
| Decoration: | none | |
| Material: | Dark stone tone | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete. | |
| Weight Description: | 0.040 | |
| Weight: | 0.040 | |
| Period: | Early Helladic | |
| Findspot Description: | House S, Zygouries | |
| Bibliography: | Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 199, pl. XXII.1 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 2002 012 10 |
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