Corinth Object: C 2010 3
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2010 3
Title:   BYZANTINE PROTOGEOMETRIC MATT-PAINTED AMPHORA
Category Code:   C
Year:   2010
Object Number:   3
Description:   Amphora with rounded shoulder, long cylindrical neck, flaring rounded lip, spined vertical hadles with conical spurs on the apex, attached to the shoulder and the middle of the neck. Similar to C 1935 402.
Material:   Fine light reddish brown clay with few white and black inclusions and rare small voids
Munsell Color:   2.5YR 6/6 (light reddish brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Four joining fragments preserve all of rim and neck, small part of body, one handle and one half of a handle. Traces of burning on upper part of neck, on rim.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   Diam. of lip 0.053
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.169
Weight Description:   0.390
Weight:   0.390
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   First half and middle of 12th c. (MacKay, Hesperia 1967, p. 286).
Area:   Nezi Field
Context:   Nezi Field, context 6770, LOT 2010 008
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Nezi Field
Image: digital 2010 4386
Image: digital 2010 4387
Basket: Nezi Field, context 6770