| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 2006 26 | |
| Title: | KNIDIAN STAMPED AMPHORA | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 2006 | |
| Object Number: | 26 | |
| Description: | Knidian transport amphora with cyclindrical neck bulging out at upper part where handle attaches and curves in immediately below rim, outward thickened rim with rounded lip, vertical handle oval in section extending horizontally from the neck. | |
| Writing: | stamp. On top of the handle, rectangular stamp | |
| Material: | Coarse reddish yellow clay fired light red at core with common medium to very large tabular sub-rounded and spherical rounded brown, black, red, white inclusions, gold and silver mica, and rare large tabular angular voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 2.5YR 6/6 (light red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Seven joining fragments preserving upper part of handle with attachment to neck, small part of rim, 1/8 of neck. Rright half of stamp preserved. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of body 0.008, W. of handle 0.043, Th. of handle 0.022 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.248, W. 0.122 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam. of rim 0.11 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.480 | |
| Weight: | 0.480 | |
| Period: | 2nd c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | According to Grace, Hesp. 1985, IVa (188-167 B.C.). | |
| Area: | Panaghia north | |
| Context: | NB976 B68 P153 | |
| NB976 B49 P113 | ||
| NB976 B70 P157 | ||
| NB976 B69 P155 | ||
| NB976 B70 P157, LOT 2006 006 | ||
| LOT 2006 007 | ||
| LOT 2006 006 | ||
| Provenance: | Knidos | |
| Findspot Description: | The frgmnt with the handle comes from B 70, one sherd from B 68, one from B 69, and four from B 49. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia north Image: bw 2007 021 16 Image: bw 2007 021 23 Baskets (4) Notebook Page: NB 976, spread 86 (pp. 156 - 157) |
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