Corinth Object: C 2011 4a Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | C 2011 4a | Title: | | LATE ROMAN AMPHORA 1 WITH DIPINTO | Category Code: | | C | Year: | | 2011 | Object Number: | | 4 | Object Suffix: | | a | Related Objects: | | C 2011 4B | Description: | | Late Roman Amphora 1 with ovoid body, convex shoulder, vertical spined handle attached at shoulder. Attempted circular hole under dipinto, hole cut on opposite side at lower end of body: amphora in preparation stages for secondary use as settling basin in drain system (?). | Writing: | | dipinto. Dipinto on shoulder between handles, Greek: LUXP with X-P ligatured. See Kenchreai IV, RC 23. | Material: | | Coarse very pale brown clay fired pink at core with 5% medium, with occasional large, white and 1% micaceous inclusions | Munsell Color: | | Surface: 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown), Core: 2.5 YR 7/6 (pink) | Condition: | | Fragment. Numerous joining frgs, preserving almost complete body, missing base and from neck up; part of one handle at shoulder; one nonj sherd left in Lot 2011 10 . | Manufacture: | | WM | Dimensions Actual: | | Diam. of body 0.285 | Dimensions Preserved: | | H. 0.420 | Weight Description: | | 2.710 | Weight: | | 2.710 | Period: | | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | Area: | | Theater | Context: | | Theater, context 3032, LOT 2011 010 | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Monument: Theater
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