Corinth Object: C 1962 668
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1962 668
Title:   COARSE TREFOIL MOUTHED OINOCHOE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1962
Object Number:   668
Description:   Almost complete pitcher. Flat base, trimmed bevelling. Spherical body that transitions to the base with a compound curve. Body and base present vertical marks on the surface, perhaps burnishing with a flat implement. Straight neck, sharp attachment to the shoulder. Trefoil rim sloping down to the back. Lip squared, shaped by trimming. Vertical, round handle (some sections tends to square). Black concretion covering spots of the inner and outer surface.
Material:   Coarse very pale brown clay , with very large, common, angular spherical, redish, black and some greenish inclusions. Some redish yellow spots
Munsell Color:   Surface: 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) and 7.5YR 7/8 (redish yellow).
Condition:   Complete profile. Several frgts., preserving complete profile with base, 3/4 body, neck and handle almost complete. Rim well defined but broken in front. Several areas plastered.
Manufacture:   WM
Weight Description:   3.410
Weight:   3.410
Period:   Protocorinthian (720-630)
Chronology:   Based on stratigraphic associations (An. 313-314).Corinth 7.2.
Provenance:   Corinth (Corinth 7.2, An. 316)
Findspot Description:   Anaploga well at Zeta-Theta/27. Baskets 141-143. NB246, p.46.
Bibliography:   Amyx and Lawrence 1975 Corinth 7.2, An. 316
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 1966 032 05