| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 1526 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE PROTOGEOMETRIC ASKOS OR ACQUAMANILE | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 1526 | |
| Description: | Askos or acquamanile in form of animal with short, stumpy legs, feet with toes rendered. Barrel-shaped body, flat at one end, rounded at opposite, head end. Large scar on rounded end, with small hole, D00.018, where head origianlly attached; on back at opposite end cylindrical neck of spout with coarse sieve in its bottom. On rest of back, stumps of horizontal strap handle, set vertically. | |
| Decoration: | Decorated in matt brown paint: on body faint pattern of wavy lines and circles. On flat end, 8 vertical wavy lines separated by straight lines. | |
| Material: | Fine hard-fired red clay with common tiny white, black inclusions, rare coarser white, black. | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 6/6 | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Single frgt., complete except for head, rim, handle, one foot. Decoration worn. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.122 (body, max) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.146 L00.134 | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Middle Byzantine | |
| Area: | Early Excavations | |
| Context: | Early Excavations, Exact provenance unknown. Written in pencil:LIV LV | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Early Excavations Image: bw 3207 Image: bw 3208 Basket: Early Excavations, Exact provenance unknown. Written in pencil:LIV LV |
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