| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KT 75002 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA DISK | |
| Category: | Minor Finds | |
| Category Code: | KT | |
| Object Number: | 75 | |
| Object Suffix: | 002 | |
| Description: | Heavy handmade disk with undersurface curved upwards to edge. Upper surface modelled in three heave, rounded, irregular concentric rings with round boss in center. Grooves between rings deep and irregular. Some similarities with a loomweight from Delphi (F. de D., V, p. 197, fig. 873), but that object is moldmade and Stillwell doubted that a loomweight with this design would be made by hand (Stillwell 1954, Corinth 15.2, cat. 58, p. 241). | |
| Decoration: | Tool marks visible between grooves. | |
| Material: | Fine, pale brown clay with few small inclusions and rare small voids | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5Y 8/2 (pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Missing approximately 1/3 of rim | |
| Manufacture: | HM | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Middle to the 3rd quarter of the 4th c. B.C. (Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, p. 43) | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB114 P61 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, East Room, Deposit 6. | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 58, p. 241 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 35 (pp. 60 - 61) |
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