| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 2010 1 | |
| Title: | MIDDLE BYZANTINE AMPHORA | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 2010 | |
| Object Number: | 1 | |
| Description: | Amphora with rounded bottom, ovoid body with constricted lower half, tapering neck, outward thickened rim, rounded lip, one part of rim with excess overhanging clay, vertical highswung oval handles attached to shoulder and middle neck, at lower handle attachments central impressed hole on handle back, one circular and one triangular. General similarity to Guensenin Type 2 (BCH Suppl. XVIII, 1989, pp. 267-276) but in the Corinth example the lower half is more constricted, the handles are not attached to the rim and flare out to a greater degree, and the rim is thinner and smaller. | |
| Material: | Coarse red clay, with frequent small to large angular and subrounded spherical, tabular, and platy white, black, and red inclusions, and rare small to large rounded voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface and core: 2.5YR 6/6-6/8 (light red) | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Numerous joining fragments preserve 90% of body, all of neck, 50% of rim, both handles. Numerous small chips left in lot. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. to rim 0.315, H. to handle, 0.320, H. of neck 0.037, max. Diam. 0.280, Diam. Of rim 0.057 | |
| Weight Description: | 3.99 | |
| Weight: | 3.99 | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 11th c. based on context (Guy Sanders) | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context: | Nezi Field, context 6689, LOT 2010 002 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Nezi Field Image: digital 2010 4259 Image: digital 2010 4260 Basket: Nezi Field, context 6689 |
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