Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1933 24 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE TABLE AMPHORA | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1933 | |
Object Number: | 24 | |
Description: | Table amphora with flat bottom, globular body, narrow neck, outward thickened rim. Two vertical strap handles attached to upper body, neck below lip. | |
Decoration: | Circumference groove at lower handle attachment, 5 together, one apart at base. Painted in red and brown: on each shoulder, pair of ovals filled with wavy lines on either side of group of short horizontal lines. Dots on lip. Groove down handle back. | |
Material: | Reddish clay, fired to brick red at bottom. | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Complete except for one handle, break in body, mended from numerous frgts. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.263 D00.085 (base) | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | Late Byzantine ? | |
Area: | Peirene | |
Context: | Peirene, Tunnel east of well "I" | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Peirene Image: bw 1999 007 23 Basket: Peirene, Tunnel east of well "I" |