Corinth Object: C 2003 31
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2003 31
Title:   IMITATION CYPRIOT BELLY-HANDLED AMPHORISKOS
Category Code:   C
Year:   2003
Object Number:   31
Description:   Belly-handled amphoriskos with convex shoulder.
Decoration:   Arranged in a horizontal band at upper body are a bright black painted vertical stripe and beside it a bright red painted sacred branch of three sprigs; at shoulder crowning the sacred branch and the stripe is a succession of stripes in white, black, red, black, reserved, black paint.
Material:   Light red clay hard-fired gray at core with frequent medium to very large rounded lime inclusions and few medium red grog inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Clay surface: 5YR 6/8; clay core: 2.5YR 6/1.
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small part of body; broken on all sides.
Manufacture:   C28 WM
Dimensions Actual:   Th. 0.004
Dimensions Preserved:   H.0.038, W. 0.040
Period:   3rd c. B.C.
Chronology:   330-280 B.C.
Area:   Panaghia south
Context:   NB960 B7 P22, LOT 2003 049
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panaghia south
Image: bw 2003 021 11a
Basket: NB960 B7 P22
Notebook Page: NB 960, spread 16 (pp. 22 - 23)