Corinth Object: C 1935 460
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1935 460
Title:   BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED FLASK
Category Code:   C
Year:   1935
Object Number:   460
Description:   Pilgrim's flask with flat bottom or side, flaring body (missing opposite side), from which extends short narrow neck with concave profile, thickened round lip. Vertical handle, round in section, attached to shoulder and neck.
Decoration:   Lustrous brown glaze over all.
Material:   Moderately coarse red-brown clay with numerous fine white, scattered coarse red, gray inclusions, voids.
Munsell Color:   Near 2.5YR 4/6
Condition:   Fragment. Four joining frgts., nearly complete profile; most of one side, shoulder, nearly half neck, small part of rim; handle. Missing bottom.
Manufacture:   C73
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.154
Dimensions Restored:   D00.14 (max)
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   78 Middle to Late Byzantine
Area:   St. John's
Context:   NB150 P129
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0064
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: St. John's
Basket: NB150 P129
Notebook Page: NB 150, spread 69 (pp. 129 - 130)