Corinth Object: C 2003 95
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2003 95
Title:   PIRIFORM BANDED UNGUENTARIUM
Category Code:   C
Year:   2003
Object Number:   95
Description:   Unguentarium with conical disk foot with slightly concave resting surface, high ovoid body beginning as stem inset from foot, with max. diam. Creating shoulder, body contracts to narrow neck. Similar to C-1968-364.
Decoration:   Purple-white-purple band around body immediately below maximum diameter, broad purple and broad white band from mid-shoulder to neck, above which three thinner purple lines are preserved. Similar to C-1968-364.
Material:   Hard-fired, thin-walled, compact clay purple at core, gray at surface with rare fine rounded white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   10YR 5/1 (surface), 2.5YR 4/1 (core)
Condition:   Fragment. Several joining frgts., all of base, 2/3 body, beginning of neck.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   Diam. of body 0.064, Diam. of foot 0.026
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.101
Weight Description:   0.047
Weight:   0.047
Period:   3rd c. B.C.
Chronology:   1/3 of 3rd c. B.C. based on context of comparanda
Area:   Panaghia south
Context:   NB959 B60 P149
    NB959 B53 P133, LOT 2003 083
    LOT 2003 083
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panaghia south
Image: bw 2003 027 28a
Image: digital 2004 0287
Basket: NB959 B53 P133
Basket: NB959 B60 P149