Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 2002 60 | |
Title: | MICACEOUS WATER JAR WITH DIPINTO | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 2002 | |
Object Number: | 60 | |
Description: | Transport/ storage amphora with sloping shoulder. | |
Writing: | dipinto. Dipinto in red paint on shoulder. Two letters in a row, part of first preserved (lamda or kapa?), second is epsilon. Is it part of date as Lang in Hesperia 1955? | |
Material: | Light pinkish buff clay, highly micaceous, with medium to very large, common to abundant mica inclusions, with few medium to very large red, white, and black inclusions, and rare medium to very large platy angular voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/6 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of shoulder, one complete letter and part of second preserved from dipinto. Traces of burning on interior. | |
Dimensions Actual: | T00.005 (max) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.086 W00.117 | |
Weight Description: | 00.060 | |
Weight: | 00.060 | |
Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
Chronology: | Early Roman? | |
Area: | Panaghia south | |
Context: | NB950 B56 P97, LOT 2002 009 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 2002 045 26 Basket: NB950 B56 P97 |