| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1986 177a | |
| Title: | PSEUDO-RHODIAN ROMAN AMPHORA, RIM AND HANDLE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1986 | |
| Object Number: | 177 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | C-1986-177B C-1986-177C | |
| Description: | Small amphora with bulbous neck and horned handles which rise in a peak above the rim. Small collar rim, slightly undercut. Handles, round in section, attached below the rim, have a right-angle corner, and attach to the carination of the shoulder (see C). For the shape but not the fabric cf. Riley, Benghazi II, D108. | |
| Material: | Hard gritty red fabric with abundant small sand, even more abundant tiny round voids, and sparse angular feldspar; surface fired yellowish red. | |
| Munsell Color: | Fabric: 2.5YR 5/8 surface: 5YR 5/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Thirteen joining fragments preserve top of neck and rim with tops of both handles. Some RIP. 0.2880 nonjoining fragments in L1986-048. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.052 T00.004 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.072 | |
| Weight Description: | 1.3660 (total) | |
| Weight: | 1.3660 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 1st or early 2nd century AC | |
| Area: | East of Theater | |
| Context: | NB773 B94 P148 | |
| NB781 B63 P94 | ||
| NB781 B73 P110 | ||
| NB773 B94 P149, LOT 1986 048 | ||
| LOT 1986 048 | ||
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: East of Theater |
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