| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 2010 15 | |
| Title: | ONE-PIECE KANTHAROS INSCRIBED ON INTERIOR | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 2010 | |
| Object Number: | 15 | |
| Description: | One-piece kantharos with ovoid body, tapered lip, vertical double round handle with Herakles' knot as thumb-rest attached below lip and at upper body. Profile as C-1931-206 (Corinth VII.3, p. 76, no. 380, pls. 15, 52). | |
| Writing: | graffito. Inscribed on interior, Greek, in four lines, beginning of lines preserved on left, broken off on right: | |
| Material: | Fine pale yellow clay with rare medium red and black inclusions and voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5Y 8/2 (pale yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Numerous joining fragments preserving one-eighth rim, one-fourth body, one handle. Most fragments from 6993, 7 pieces from 6988, and 2 pieces from 7298. Glaze well-preserved. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.090, W. 0.084 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam. of rim 0.09 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.032 | |
| Weight: | 0.032 | |
| Period: | 3rd c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Sarah James dates the shape in general to 2/4 3rd to 1/4 2nd c. B.C., the piece in particular to the 2/4 to 3/4 3rd. | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context: | Nezi Field, context 6993 | |
| Nezi Field, context 7298 | ||
| Nezi Field, context 6988, LOT 2010 007 | ||
| LOT 2010 007 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Nezi Field Image: digital 2010 4251 Image: digital 2010 4252 Image: digital 2010 4253 Basket: Nezi Field, context 6988 Basket: Nezi Field, context 6993 Basket: Nezi Field, context 7298 |
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