| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 4041 | |
| Title: | BRONZE KETTLE WITH INSCRIPTION | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 4041 | |
| Description: | Flat-bottomed bronze kettle with straight sides slightly indented beneath the projecting rim. Two pierced oval projections on the rim for attachment of handle; iron rivet remains in one hole. Inscription below rim. | |
| Decoration: | Crudely engraved guilloche pattern around the sides below inscription; engraved band of chevrons near bottom. | |
| Writing: | inscribed. One line in Greek, proper names uncertain but reading probably: K[URI]E BOH(TH)[E]I TOU DOULOU SOY HSH[]OROU AMA TI SUMBHOU ARET[EI] | |
| Material: | Bronze | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Several missing pieces including handle; much battered, surface damaged. | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 13th c, according to Corinth 12 | |
| Findspot Description: | Found with MF-4005, MF-4006, and MF-4007 in water channel in Agora near St. Johns, area west of Temple G above prehitsoric fill: date not recorded, and I (JHK) cannot find it in the notebooks. | |
| Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 554; AJA 1935, Vol. 39, p. 87, fig. 7, p. 89, fig. 8, p. 372, fig. 1 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 3180 Image: digital 2013 0009 |