Corinth Object: C 2002 60
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