Corinth Object: C 1946 38
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1946 38
Title:   HELLENISTIC ONE-HANDLED FLANGED CHYTRA
Category Code:   C
Year:   1946
Object Number:   38
Description:   Chytra with slightly flattened bottom, ovoid body with max. diam. Below median at 0.045. Wheel groove at rim attachment. Flaring rim with inward beveled lip, conacave inside. Flange as downward sloping ridge inside rim, slight ridge at edge; below, flange forms thick band with gradual transition to body interior. Thickened strap handle attached just above maximum diameter, rising slightly higher than rim; body attachment offset from rim. Wheel ridges inside. Traces of buring on outside.
Material:   Coarse red clay fired reddish-gray on outside with frequent large to very large white, yellow and gray inclusions, spherical to tabular and sub-rounded to angular; rare very large voids
Munsell Color:   Surface: from 10R 6/4 (pale red) to 2.5Y N 4/0 (dark gray), Core: 2.5 YR 5/6 (red)
Condition:   Complete profile. Many joining frgts., preserving three-quarters of body, two-thirds of rim, all of handle
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   H. to rim, max. 0.116, H. 0.120, max. Diam. 0.142, Diam. Of rim 0.096
Weight Description:   0.326
Weight:   0.326
Area:   South Stoa east
Context:   NB194 P157
Bibliography:   Corinth VII.3 no. 653, p. 122.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Edwards, Corinth 7:3, 1975
Monument: South Stoa east
Image: bw 1962 028 27
Basket: NB194 P157
Notebook Page: NB 194, spread 84 (pp. 157 - 158)