| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1997 48a | |
| Title: | LATE ROMAN TABLE AMPHORA: RIM | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1997 | |
| Object Number: | 48 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | C-1997-048B | |
| Description: | Table amphora with straight flaring conical body (B), max. diam. below high rounded shoulder, conical neck with rounded profile, tapering to slightly flaring tall rim with flat lip (A). Two vertical handles, oval in section, pinched along one side, attached to mid shoulder and top of neck. | |
| Decoration: | Creamy white slip on upper half of amphora (A), drips continuing down lower body (B). | |
| Material: | Medium hard weak red to gray clay, even granular break; few to frequent inclusions: rare large to very large tabular to spherical angular white and orange quartz, rare medium spherical rounded black and rare small sparkling inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Core: 10R 4/1 to 2.5YR 6/6 Edges: 10R 5/3 Surface varies | |
| Condition: | Fragment. 15 joining frgts., upper body to rim, 3/4 shoulder and neck, ca. complete rim, both handles. Some blackening on upper body, rim. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.07 (rim) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.239 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.7 | |
| Weight: | 0.7 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 76 Context 6th to early 7th c. | |
| Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
| Context: | NB892 B111 P129 | |
| NB892 B56 P72 | ||
| NB892 B68 P83 | ||
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia Villa Image: bw 1998 005 12 Basket: NB892 B56 P72 Basket: NB892 B68 P83 Basket: NB892 B111 P129 Notebook Page: NB 892, spread 46 (p. 83) Notebook Page: NB 892, spread 67 (p. 129) |
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