Corinth Object: C 1999 57
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1999 57
Title:   IMPORTED STEWPOT
Category Code:   C
Year:   1999
Object Number:   57
Old Number:   Lot 1999-22:3 (number lapsed)
Description:   Stewpot with flat bottom, almost spherical body, curving sharply up to vertical rim with rounded lip. Strap handle from max. diam. to upper shoulder.
Decoration:   Slightly wheel-ridged upper body.
Material:   Medium hard very dark gray clay with few irregular shaped gold sparkling spherical/angular inclusions, white subrounded spherical inclusions, irregular voids, and granular break.
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 3/1 (very dark gray)
Condition:   Complete profile. Many joining frgts., preserving complete profile. Missing 1/3 body, half rim, and possibly one handle. RIP.
Manufacture:   WM
Weight Description:   0.665
Weight:   0.665
Period:   Byzantine
Chronology:   late 8th/early 9th c., according to R. Valente
Area:   Panayia
Context:   NB913 B50 P119
    NB920 B79 P157
Provenance:   Imported
Findspot Description:   Lot 1999-22; basket 79 NB920 P157 and 50 year 1999, NB913 P119
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panayia
Image: digital 2015 4106
Basket: NB913 B50 P119
Basket: NB920 B79 P157
Notebook Page: NB 923, spread 34 (pp. 57 - 58)