Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1958 9 | |
Title: | KNIDIAN STAMPED AMPHORA HANDLE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1958 | |
Object Number: | 9 | |
Description: | Transport amphora with vertical handle, oval in section, making rounded arch. | |
Writing: | stamp. Rectangular stamp on handle top: [ΕΠΙ ΤΙΜ]AKLE{ΥC} / [ΚΝΙΔΙ N]Ι with dot under I KASI / ΓΕΝΕΥ]C anchor pointing right (V. Grace’s Knidian Type [KT] 1078). The eponym Timakles falls early in V. Grace’s period IV A (188-167 B.C.). | |
Material: | Fine, light, brownish red clay with rare, small to medium, dark red and white inclusions and rare, minute, sparkling inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 6/6 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving arch of handle, corner of stamp; broken either end, lower right. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | Dim. max 00.077 T00.024 | |
Period: | Hellenistic | |
Chronology: | Hellenistic | |
Area: | Circular Building by Broneer House | |
Context: | NB196 P7 | |
Provenance: | Knidos | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Circular Building by Broneer House Basket: NB196 P7 |