Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 2003 101 | |
Title: | CORINTHIAN A STAMPED AMPHORA HANDLE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 2003 | |
Object Number: | 101 | |
Description: | Corinthian A transport/storage amphora with vertical spined handle. | |
Writing: | stamp. Near base of handle, shallow seven-petalled palmette with one preserved vertical volute. Similar to C-76-117 (Koehler diss 1978, no. 175). | |
Material: | Coarse light redclay fired gray at core with common large-v. large spherical, platy, angular, rounded black; few medium-v. large spherical, rounded white lime; few quartz; frequent mudstone; rare fine sparkling inclusions; common platy, angular voids. | |
Munsell Color: | Surface: 2.5YR 6/6 (light red); core: 10YR 5/1 (gray) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment preserving two thirds of handle with lower attachment and small part of body. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Dimensions Actual: | W. of handle 0.029, Th. of handle 0.037 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.144 | |
Weight Description: | 0.250 | |
Weight: | 0.250 | |
Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | 2/2 4th c. B.C. | |
Area: | Panaghia south | |
Context: | NB959 B40 P101, LOT 2003 081 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 2005 025 31 Image: bw 2005 025 36 Basket: NB959 B40 P101 |