| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 2011 20 | |
| Title: | HADRIANIC-SEVERAN AMPHORA WITH DIPINTO AND GRAFFITO | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 2011 | |
| Object Number: | 20 | |
| Description: | Storage/ transport amphora with tall, ovoid body with maximum diameter above the median of the body, rounded shoulder, short, narrow neck, with slight double-S curve in profile, triangular rim outwardly thickend, groove at junction of rim with neck, broad flattened lip. Two vertical handles, flattened oval in section, attached at shoulder and neck below rim. Handles bow in and are pushed in creating depression at lower attachment. Cf. C-1984-177. | |
| Writing: | dipinto and inscribed. In black paint, on shoulder between handles, in 3 lines: | |
| Material: | Coarse very pale brown to pink clay fired light gray at core with common large to very large white lime and black inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 10YR 7/3 (very pale brown) and 5YR 7/4 (pink), Core: 5Y 7/2 (light gray) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Mended from numerous joining frgts, complete except for the toe and at least 24 small frgts from body and neck. Small piece of iron stack on body, and one more discoloration mark from contact with iron on body. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Diam. of rim 0.13 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.80 | |
| Weight Description: | 8.450 | |
| Weight: | 8.450 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Parallel comes from a 2nd c. context, but our context is 1st c. Williams in Hesperia report dates it Hadrianic-Severan | |
| Area: | Theater | |
| Context: | Theater, context 1092, LOT 2011 033 | |
| Bibliography: | Williams 2013, Hesperia 82.3, cat. 2 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Theater |
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