| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KN 221 | |
| Title: | CONICAL INSCRIBED LOOMWEIGHT | |
| Category: | Minor Finds | |
| Category Code: | KN | |
| Object Number: | 221 | |
| Description: | Conical loomweight with very slightly concave undersurface, bevel, and mostly straight walls which are slightly convex near top; single hanging hole; lambda inscised into bevel at 90 degrees from hanging hole. Shape similar to KN 116, from same deposit. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. Lambda incised on bevel prior to finall smoothing, Greek: | |
| Material: | Fine pale yellow slip over heavier clay, slip has few fine inclusions and few fine voids | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5Y 8/3 (pale yellow) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete, some very minor surface damage. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Weight Description: | 0.273 | |
| Weight: | 0.273 | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | ca. 350-325 B.C. (Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, p. 24) | |
| Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
| Context: | NB114 P4 | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter, Terracotta Factory, Court, Deposit 2 | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell 1952, Corinth 15.2, cat. 32, p. 278 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter |
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