Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | FM 43 | |
Title: | TERRACOTTA WELL COVER | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | FM | |
Object Number: | 43 | |
Description: | Circular well cover, flat with central opening surrounded by flat rim with sloping side. Bottom rough, other surfaces thinly slipped. | |
Decoration: | Possible painted decoration near outer edge, ghost of which preserved: 6 vertical strokes, placed in a row at ca. rt. Angle to outer edge and stretching toward center; hatched lines between strokes 1 and 2 and 2 and 3. | |
Material: | Coarse clay, fired buff to pinkish tan, 3% fine to coarse angular spherical and tabular red mudstone inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/6 to paler | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Seven joining frgts., complete profile, nearly half of opening and cover, 1/5 outer edge. | |
Manufacture: | CO | |
Dimensions Actual: | L00.29 T00.031-00.044 W00.025 (rim) H00.007 (rim) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | MPDim00.638 | |
Dimensions Restored: | D00.29 (opening) D00.78 (max) | |
Period: | Classical | |
Area: | Tile Works | |
Context: | NB190 P380 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Tile Works Image: bw 2002 001 01a Basket: NB190 P380 Notebook Page: NB 190, spread 9 (pp. 379 - 380) |