Corinth Object: ZST 8
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   ZST 8
Title:   UNFINISHED STONE BEAD OR PESTLE
Category:   Miscellaneous
Category Code:   ZST
Object Number:   8
Old Number:   Z 8
Description:   Unfinished stone bead or pestle. Roughly cylindrical, but slightly tapered towards the ends and near the center. Has a convex profile overall. Oval in section. Tool marks suggest unfinished. Blegen suggests that it might be an unfinished bead in his notebook (NB 897, 168), but groups it with pestles in the final publication (Blegen 1928, 198). The other pestles are circular rather than oval in section, and have a concave rather than convex prifile.
Decoration:   none
Material:   Very dark stone
Condition:   Complete or intact. Complete.
Weight Description:   0.010
Weight:   0.010
Period:   Early Helladic
Findspot Description:   House U, Zygouries
Bibliography:   Blegen 1928, Zygouries, p. 198, pl. XXII.13
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 2002 012 15