| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 2005 12 | |
| Title: | STAMPED CONICAL LOOMWEIGHT | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 2005 | |
| Object Number: | 12 | |
| Description: | Conical loomweight with flat base, high bevelling, conical body. Profile X, as MF 2848 (Corinth XII, p. 169, no. 1168, fig. 23). | |
| Writing: | stamp. Below bevelling rectangular stamp, H. 0.009, | |
| Material: | Coarse, pink clay with few small to very large spherical sub-rounded to angular mudstone, spherical angular white inclusions. Few platy voids. Reddish yellow slip. | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 8/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. One fragment preserving all of base and one third body. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Diam. of base 0.041, max. Diam. 0.060 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.066 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.176 | |
| Weight: | 0.176 | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Profile: c. 350-300 B.C., Stamp appears on loom weights with profile dated to c. 300-250 B.C. | |
| Area: | Panaghia south | |
| Context: | NB966 B103 P181, LOT 2005 006 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 2005 026 19 Image: bw 2005 027 03 Basket: NB966 B103 P181 Notebook Page: NB 966, spread 95 (pp. 180 - 181) |
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