Corinth Object: KP 700
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 700
Title:   SMALL LIDDED FEEDER
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   700
Description:   Small feeder with flat disk base, low ovoid body, narrow neck, and outward flanged rim with tapered lip. Most of strap handle missing, but sprung from flange and attaching just above widest part of body. Four small holes concentrated on one half of closed mouth. Filling hole 0.014 m. below flange. Similar to KP 237 from Terracotta Factory Deposit 2 (though without spout) and T2484 from the North Cemetery.
Decoration:   Slight traces of string marks on base.
Material:   Fine pink clay with few fine white and red inclusions and few fine voids
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 7/4 (pink)
Condition:   Complete profile. Single frgt preserving most of vessel; much of handle missing. Surface slightly erroded.
Manufacture:   WM
Weight Description:   0.036
Weight:   0.036
Period:   4th c. B.C.
Chronology:   ca. 350-325 B.C., based on deposit (Stillwell and Benson, Corinth 15.3, p. 211)
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   NB114 P32
Provenance:   Corinth.
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory, Court, Deposit 4.
Bibliography:   Stillwell and Benson, Corinth 15.3, cat. 2207, p. 353
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Potters' Quarter
Image: bw 1965 081 15
Basket: NB114 P32
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 21 (pp. 32 - 33)
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 32 (pp. 54 - 55)