Corinth Object: C 1931 556 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | C 1931 556 | | Title: | | MORTAR | | Category Code: | | C | | Year: | | 1931 | | Object Number: | | 556 | | Description: | | Mortar with flat base, widely flaring concave body, outward thickened rim, undercut, convex and slightly inward tapering, round lip. Two horizontal spool handles placed on rim; at right angles to them a spout. Floor of mortar gritty to ca. 0.02 m. below lip. | | Material: | | Coarse yellow-buff clay with dense amount of fine to coarser black inclusions. | | Munsell Color: | | Between 10YR 8/3 and 2.5Y 8/3 | | Condition: | | Complete profile. Eight joining frgts., complete profile; ca. 1/2 bottom, 7/8 body and rim; most of two handles, spout restored. | | Dimensions Actual: | | H00.068 D00.175 (base) D00.260 (lip) | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Area: | | Asklepieion | | Context: | | Asklepieion, Possibly from Votive Deposit V, written on it: AL | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Bibliography: | | Villing & Pemberton 2010, Hesperia 79.4, cat. 47 | | Site: | | Asklepeion | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Asklepieion
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Basket: Asklepieion, Possibly from Votive Deposit V, written on it: AL
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