Corinth Object: C 1986 173a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1986 173a
Title:   SMALL BUFF ROMAN AMPHORA, RIM AND HANDLE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1986
Object Number:   173
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C-1986-173B
Description:   Small amphora with cylindrical body, angular carination to narrow concave shoulder continuing up as slightly flaring neck, outward thickened rim slightly undercut. Two vertical handles, oval in section, attached a little below rim and to carination between shoulder and body. Surface of neck still shows turning marks.
Material:   Fine very pale brown fabric with abundant tiny to small round voids, moderate small black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   10YR 8/3
Condition:   Fragment. 16 joining fragments preserve rim to shoulder and one handle.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   D00.100 (rim) T00.004
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.229
Weight Description:   1.1830 (including B and nonjoining handle in lot)
Weight:   1.1830
Period:   Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD)
Chronology:   Flavian or Trajanic
Area:   East of Theater
Context:   NB781 B70 P106
    NB781 B101 P147
    NB781 B64 P97
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: East of Theater
Image: digital 2013 0218