| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 2003 11 | |
| Title: | STAMPED TERRACOTTA CONICAL LOOMWEIGHT | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 2003 | |
| Object Number: | 11 | |
| Description: | Biconical loomweight with broad slightly concave bottom, straight flaring body to bevel at H00.013, straight sides above bevelling tapering to tip where impression of horizontal suspension hole; Profile VIII, cf. Corinth XII, no 1100. | |
| Decoration: | Possible light brown wash over all. | |
| Writing: | stamp. Stamp on bottom center resembling daisy flower head with larger deeper inner circle surrounded by eight smaller, slightly shallower, near-overlapping circles; total diameter of stamp 00.014. | |
| Material: | Pale green clay with frequent medium spherical rounded and platy sub-rounded black and red inclusions, laminar vertical breaks. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5Y 8/2 | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Single fragment preserving bottom except for chips, 1/3 of body and tip shallowly abraded. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.068 (max.) D00.050 (base) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.071 | |
| Weight Description: | 00.200 | |
| Weight: | 00.200 | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | 5th c. B. C. ? | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Reclaimed at main site from tourist by guard Panayiotis Psomas, 19/4/03. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 2003 010 13a Image: bw 2003 010 14a |
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