| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 2014 26 | |
| Title: | THREE-HANDLED STORAGE AMPHORA | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 2014 | |
| Object Number: | 26 | |
| Description: | Storage amphora with spherical (or ovoid) body, cylindrical narrow neck, outward thickened vertical rim, inturned squared lip. Two broad vertical strap handles attached to shoulder and mid-neck, a third small handle attached to shoulder and body. Similar to C-1938-191 and C-1994-90. | |
| Decoration: | Wheel ridges on shoulder and body. Matt-painted decoration: diagonal brown to black stripes on handles, one spiral(?) on the large one; stripe on rim(?); spirals inside circles on shoulder and body; smudgy drips on neck and lower part of body. Similar to C-1994-90. | |
| Material: | Coarse pale yellow clay with large to V. large common spherical rounded black and gray inclusions, and common platy rounded voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5Y 8/2 (pale yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Numerous frgts., preserving 3/4 body, all neck and rim, two handles and start third. Painting partially preserved. Accretions and root action on surface. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Weight Description: | 2.240 | |
| Weight: | 2.240 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Context middle 14th | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Context: | Temple E, Southeast, context 504 | |
| Temple E, Southeast, context 487, LOT 2014 036 | ||
| LOT 2014 036 | ||
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple E, Southeast Image: digital 2014 5526 Image: digital 2014 5527 Image: digital 2014 5528 Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 487 Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 504 |
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