Corinth Object: C 2013 21 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | C 2013 21 | | Title: | | LATE ROMAN C PLATE OR BOWL WITH STAMPED KANTHAROS | | Category Code: | | C | | Year: | | 2013 | | Object Number: | | 21 | | Description: | | Plate or bowl (probably Hayes Form 3), with flat base, convex on top, with raised spiral circle probably from smoothing with a spatula. | | Decoration: | | Red slip over all. Kantharos stamp in center, H. 0.019, W. 0.013, stylized with splayed foot, circles to indicate handles, open mouth somewhat like a lotus bud; no indication of fluting as in other versions of this stamp. Cf. Hayes LRC Stamp Type 59c. | | Material: | | Hard fired, somewhat fine light red clay, with common white lime inclusions, some erupting from surface. Slip one shade darker than matrix | | Munsell Color: | | Core: 2.5YR 6/6 (light red); Slip: 2.5YR 5/8 (red) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single fragment. Bottom of vessel with no edges or foot and stamp at center. Deliberately chipped in antiquity to create a circular disk with the stamp at center | | Manufacture: | | C50 WM | | Dimensions Preserved: | | Diam. horizontal 0.035; Diam. vertical 0.032 | | Weight Description: | | 0.008 | | Weight: | | 0.008 | | Period: | | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | | Chronology: | | Cf. Agora XXXII 1357-1359, late 5th-early 6th century. For another Late Roman stamp clipped to form a counter, cf. Agora XXXII no. 1222 | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Context: | | Nezi Field, context 1080, LOT 2013 008 | | Provenance: | | Phocea | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Nezi Field
Image: digital 2013 0828
Basket: Nezi Field, context 1080
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