Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 2013 61 | |
Title: | GOUGED JUG | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 2013 | |
Object Number: | 61 | |
Description: | Gouged jar or flagon. Ring base (broken off) with flat bottom. Interior smoothed with spatula. Slightly flaring, convex wall. | |
Decoration: | Top dipped in dark metallic slip which dripped to base. Horizontal grooves on lower half of vessel; top would have transverse gouges based on comparanda. | |
Material: | Hard reddish brown clay, common large round black and white inclusions producing spalling on surface. | |
Munsell Color: | Core: 5YR 6/3 (light reddish brown), Slip: 5YR 5/3 (reddish brown) | |
Condition: | Fragment. 4 fragments, joining. Complete bottom of vessel with resting surface broken off, 25% of lower vessel wall. Bottom burned, probably post-production. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.093, Diam. base 0.066 | |
Weight Description: | 0.139 | |
Weight: | 0.139 | |
Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
Chronology: | Late 4th-early 6th, based on Agora deposits (cf. Agora V Group L Layer III, Group M X-XIII; Hesp. 2005 Assemblages 1 and 2; Slane 2008 p. 477) | |
Area: | Nezi Field | |
Context: | Nezi Field, context 1080, LOT 2013 008 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Nezi Field Image: digital 2013 0820 Image: digital 2013 0821 Basket: Nezi Field, context 1080 |