| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1931 574 | |
| Title: | MORTAR | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1931 | |
| Object Number: | 574 | |
| Description: | Mortar with tall convex bowl, projecting rim slightly convex, set below top of bowl creating a rising lip. The spout is straightsided (no flare) with an irregular ridge on the outside (intentional?). The end of the spout is not well finished and flares down. No evidence for handle or bolster. Surfaces are not smoothed evenly; inclusions are visible on the interior surface as grit for grinding. The type belongs to Edwards Mortar II (Hellenistic), Williams' Type V. | |
| Material: | Coarse clay with many large and small red and gray inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | Core: 7.5YR 8-7/6, Surface: 10YR 8/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving all of spout, small section of rim and upper bowl. | |
| Manufacture: | probably MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. of spout 0.072, W. of spout 0.062 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.078 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam. of rim 0.29 to 0.30 | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Before the end of the 4th c. B.C. by context. | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB122 P174 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | From context pottery. Inventoried by E. Pemberton in November 2005. | |
| Bibliography: | Villing & Pemberton 2010, Hesperia 79.4, cat. 55 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 2006 001 10 Basket: NB122 P174 |
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