| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1997 64 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE TANKARD | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1997 | |
| Object Number: | 64 | |
| Description: | Tankard with slightly concave base, tall body with straight profile, widening slightly from base to lip, tapered lip, offset by groove. Two vertical handles, round in section, from above base to below lip; lower attachment marked by circumference groove. | |
| Decoration: | Bottom scored with short, parallel vertical lines; body burnished, over which, long stripes in creamy slip or paint, between pairs of which vertical wiggly lines. | |
| Material: | Fine, well-compacted buff clay with rare fine white angular (?) spherical inclusions, rare voids, hackly fracture. | |
| Munsell Color: | No good match: near 7.5YR 7/5 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Complete profile, 21 joining frgts., complete except for ca. half lower body, 1/12 upper body, lip, base of one handle. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.147 D00.07 (base) D00.105 (lip) | |
| Weight Description: | 0.45 | |
| Weight: | 0.45 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Context 11th c. | |
| Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
| Context: | NB892 B138 P153 | |
| NB892 B103 P123 | ||
| NB892 B108 P126 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth ? | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia Villa Image: digital 2015 4077 Basket: NB892 B103 P123 Basket: NB892 B108 P126 Basket: NB892 B138 P153 Notebook Page: NB 892, spread 64 (p. 123) Notebook Page: NB 892, spread 66 (p. 127) |
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