| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 2015 45 | |
| Title: | CONICAL LOOMWEIGHT | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 2015 | |
| Object Number: | 45 | |
| Description: | Conical loomweight with flat bottom to biconical body with low bevel tapering to rounded top. One small rounded stringhole pierced bilateral below top. Shape similar to type VIII MF-3219 (Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 1093). | |
| Decoration: | Smoothed surface. Incised cross inside a circle on bottom. No good parallels. | |
| Material: | Semifine reddish yellow to pink clay with few small subrounded and angular tabular white and reddish orange inclusions and rare small voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/4-6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Intact with few large chips on top and bottom. Iron accretion on bevel. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Weight Description: | 0.25 | |
| Weight: | 0.25 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | based on context | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context: | South Stoa, context 62 | |
| South Stoa, context 62, LOT 2015 087 | ||
| LOT 2015 086 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Stoa Image: digital 2015 3790 Image: digital 2015 3791 Basket: South Stoa, context 62 |
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