Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 3280 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE AMPHORA | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 3280 | |
Description: | Amphora with round bottom, wide ovoid body with max. diam. below shoulder, continuing into steep sloping shoulder, short wide neck, deformed by handles, ovvset from shoulder with mid rib; neck widens to inward thickened rim, complete profile of which missing. Two vertical handles, oval to round in section, rising vertically from shoulder, bending down to mid neck, with clay smeared at joint. | |
Decoration: | Wheel-ridging over all body to handle attachments, rest smooth. | |
Material: | Fine reddish-tan clay, scattered fine white inclusions. | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Two joining frgts., intact to mid neck; both handles, one of which mended. Several large surface chips in body. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Dimensions Actual: | D00.308 (max) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.39 | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | 11th c. (GSanders) | |
Area: | Early Excavations | |
Context: | Early Excavations, Exact provenance unknown. Found in OM; given MK nu | |
Provenance: | Istanbul | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Early Excavations Basket: Early Excavations, Exact provenance unknown. Found in OM; given MK nu |