Corinth Object: C 1997 50
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1997 50
Title:   LATE ROMAN COOKING WARE TABLE AMPHORA
Category Code:   C
Year:   1997
Object Number:   50
Description:   Table amphora with slightly concave bottom, straight steeply flaring body, rounded high shoulder, conical neck tapering to torus rim, tapered lip, interior of lip concave, perhaps for lid. Two vertical handles, round in section, attached to base of shoulder and upper part of neck. Indentation in one side of body, vertical and oblique striations from trimming ?
Material:   Medium hard red clay with hackly break. Few large to very large inclusions including rare large to very large subrounded and angular spherical glassy yellow, spherical to tabular rounded milky yellow, angular black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   10R 5/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Many joining frgts., complete profile; complete bottom, 2/3 body, most of shoulder, all neck and rim, one handle, stumps of 2nd.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.364 D00.080 (bottom) D00.055 (rim)
Weight Description:   1.48
Weight:   1.48
Area:   Panaghia Villa
Context:   NB892 B68 P83
    NB892 B56 P72
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panaghia Villa
Image: bw 1998 011 29
Basket: NB892 B56 P72
Basket: NB892 B68 P83
Notebook Page: NB 892, spread 41 (p. 73)
Notebook Page: NB 892, spread 46 (p. 83)