| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1999 54 | |
| Title: | LARGE-SIZE, MATT-PAINTED PILGRIM FLASK | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Object Number: | 54 | |
| Description: | Over-sized pilgrim jug, constructed like flat-bottom jar with neck, two handles placed just above "base"; cone-shaped neck. Two broad vertical strap handles W00.051, rise from just above max. diam. of body to neck. | |
| Decoration: | Spirally grooved neck. Undersurface of bottom decorated in straight wavy matt black-painted lines. Body above handles decorated with carelessly executed sets of curved lines that cluster into what look like two spirals. Four brush strokes across upper strap handle. | |
| Material: | Clay fired slightly pinkish at core to light green yellow at surface; where clay thick, goes to gray. Medium-sized chert and mudstone, very small particles of lime, very few small sparkling inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 2.5Y 5.6/4 Gray core: 10YR 6/2.5 | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Numerous joining frgts., giving upper half of flask, preserving edge of flat side, much of body, 1/4 neck and one handle. Missing most of convex side of body. | |
| Manufacture: | C04 WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.255 (base) D00.309 (body) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.29 (ca.) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | ? 84? Prob. 12th c. or Frankish 13th (by decoration) | |
| Area: | North of Theater | |
| Context: | North of Theater, Sewage trench at northwest corner of latrine, from | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: North of Theater |
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