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 Images (9) Basket: Asklepieion, Possibly from Votive Deposit V, written on it: AL |