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 |