Corinth Object: C 1999 52
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1999 52
Title:   MIDDLE GEOMETRIC I AMPHORA
Category Code:   C
Year:   1999
Object Number:   52
Description:   Amphora with slightly flaring ring foot, flat resting and undersurface, tall ovoid body with max. diam. ca. H00.17, tall neck with concave profile falring to outward thickened rim with flaring convex profile, tapered lip; 2 vertical strap handles attached to shoulder and to neck above the median. Identical with C 2002 035.
Decoration:   Undersurface and resting surface of foot reserved. Exterior of foot and body to H00.19, 2 thin reserved stripes, reserved and decorated with groups of vertical lines alternating with hour-glass pattern on its side, 2 reserved stripes above; shoulder glazed. Neck and rim glazed with reserved rectangular panel on neck, in center of each side: cross; in 4 corners square filled with diagonal cross-hatching in glaze; on one face cross drawn with single line, on other with double line. On interior of rim, glazed band set below lip. On handle backs horiontal bars from top to bottom. Identical with C 2002 035.
Material:   Fine pale buff to pale yellow clay with 1% or less angular spherical red inclusions, 2-3% fine voids, fracture rough.
Munsell Color:   Surface: 10YR 8/3 Core: 2.5Y 8/4
Condition:   Complete profile. Many joining frgts, complete profile. 1/4 foot, body; all of neck, 2/3 rim, both handles; glaze largely worn away.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.41 D00.126 (foot) D00.267 (max) D00.091 (neck, center) D00.144 (rim)
Weight Description:   02.73
Weight:   02.73
Period:   Middle Geometric (825-750)
Chronology:   Middle Geometric I (DeVries)
Area:   Panayia
Context:   NB918 B103 P141
    NB944 B44 P78
    NB944 B49 P87
    NB954 B7 P20
    NB944 B22 P42
    NB954 B19 P44
    NB954 B18 P43
    NB923 B57 P133
    NB954 B11 P28
    NB923 B57 P133, LOT 2002 030
    LOT 2002 033
    LOT 2002 030
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panayia
Image: bw 2000 022 36
Image: bw 2002 030 03a
Image: bw 2002 030 04a
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