Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 3284 | |
Title: | GAZA AMPHORA | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 3284 | |
Old Number: | MK-2687 | |
Description: | Amphora with cylindrical body curving into very steep shoulder with convex profile, low vertical rim (H00.010), inward thickened. Small vertical strap handle making loop with broad finger stroke down back, set at base of shoulder. Added clay on top of shoulder below rim. | |
Decoration: | 8 wheel-ridges at base of shoulder. | |
Material: | Reddish brown clay with scattered fine white inclusions. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Numerous joining frgts., upper half or 2/3 of body to rim, complete circumference below shoudler, half shoulder, rim, one intact handle. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Dimensions Actual: | D00.254 (body) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.49 | |
Dimensions Restored: | D00.10-00.105 (rim) | |
Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
Chronology: | Late Roman | |
Area: | Early Excavations | |
Context: | Early Excavations, Exact provenance unknown. Found in OM; given MK nu | |
Provenance: | Gaza | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Early Excavations Basket: Early Excavations, Exact provenance unknown. Found in OM; given MK nu |