| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 378 | |
| Title: | AMPHORA | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 378 | |
| Description: | Part of an amphora with flattish shoulder, cyclindrical neck, and flaring rim profiled with three rings at join to neck. Two strap handles from below rim to shoulder. Fabric similar to blister ware. | |
| Decoration: | Black over all but small portion of interior (possibly painted only to end of shoulder on interior. | |
| Material: | Coarse light reddish brown clay with gray core, frequent large and medium inclusions and rare small voids | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/4 (light reddish brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Five joining frgts preserving all of rim and neck, one handle, and small part of upper body. Glaze poorly preserved. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | "well into the 5th c." (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 346, cat. 2141) | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Possibly Terracotta Factory, Deposit 9. | |
| Bibliography: | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 346, cat. 2141 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 1965 087 25 Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 74 (pp. 136 - 137) |
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