Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1933 66 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE TABLE AMPHORA | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1933 | |
Object Number: | 66 | |
Description: | Amphora with flat bottom, ovoid body widening slightly to max. diam. at shoulder, curving in to tall wide cylindrical neck, slightly thickened round lip offset by 2 circumference grooves. Two vertical strap handles attached to max. diam. and mid neck. | |
Decoration: | Flat bands of wheel-ridging from ca. H00.05 to neck. | |
Material: | Fine pale reddish-brown clay with scattered white and black inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Near 5YR 5/6 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Numerous joining frgts., complete except for small holes in body, 1/6 neck, handles. (fell off shelf, redescribed after mending). | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.223 D00.115 (bottom) D00.161 (max) D00.088 (lip) | |
Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
Chronology: | Middle to Late Byzantine | |
Area: | Peirene | |
Context: | Peirene, Tunnel east from "Z" ? (BHH) | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Peirene Basket: Peirene, Tunnel east from "Z" ? (BHH) |