| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1947 399 | |
| Title: | MORTARIUM | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1947 | |
| Object Number: | 399 | |
| Description: | Disk foot, underside concave, curving wall, low lip, rim curves further down. Two handles with four piecrust fingerholds, not attached at 90 degrees to spout, but at 2 and 10 o'clock. The spout, wth narrow opening, is pinched in, strongly splayed, not level with the rim, and very messily attached. Wheel marks. | |
| Decoration: | Self-slipped on upper wall, over rim and wall, worn away on upper interior of bowl. | |
| Material: | Small to medium red inclusions, some white. Not much grit on interior, and it does not rise about the surface of the bowl. | |
| Munsell Color: | Core 10YR 8/4-7/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Nine joining fragments, vessel completed in plaster. | |
| Chronology: | To 146, with Roman fill above. | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth VII.3, p. 111, no. 627, pls. 22, 59; Villing & Pemberton 2010, Hesperia 79.4, cat. 60 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 1962 027 35 Notebook Page: NB 195, spread 74 (pp. 137 - 138) |
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