Corinth Object: C 1938 735
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 735
Title:   AFRICAN RED SLIP PITCHER
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   735
Description:   Closed vessel with biconical shape, in so far as preserved, with straight flaring body, shoulder contracting with straight profile; groove at juncture.
Decoration:   Red slip on exterior, burnished ?
Material:   Fine light red clay with numerous tiny sparkling inclusions, a few white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5YR 5/6
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., top of body, base of shoulder.
Manufacture:   C49
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.043 W00.077
Dimensions Restored:   D00.13 (ca., shoulder)
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Context Medieval
Area:   Agora south central
Context:   NB175 P68
    NB175 P69
Provenance:   North Africa
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora south central
Basket: NB175 P68
Basket: NB175 P69
Notebook Page: NB 175, spread 40 (pp. 67 - 68)