| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1933 10 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE MATT-PAINTED AMPHORA | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1933 | |
| Object Number: | 10 | |
| Description: | Amphora with round depressed bottom with central nipple, ovoid body, high rounded shoulder, short narrow neck, folded rim, rounded lip. Two vertical strap handles attached to shoulder and mid neck. As C 1933 135. | |
| Decoration: | Matt-painted spirals on shoulder, two on each side between handles, diagonal stripes on handle back, extending on rim. As C 1933 135. | |
| Material: | Coarse pale yellow clay, with few medium white lime, frequent medium to very large angular mudstone and gray stone, few sparkling inclusions, and tabular angular and subrounded spherical voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5Y 8/3 (pale yellow) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact. Paint on spirals well-preserved, worn on handles. Lime accretions in thin lines run the whole height of vessel, black discoloration on both sides. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.285, Diam. of rim 0.065, Diam. max. 0.205 | |
| Weight Description: | 1.430 | |
| Weight: | 1.430 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Area: | Peirene | |
| Context: | Peirene | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | BHH Peirene, South from P5, March 8. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Peirene Image: bw 2008 068 12 Image: bw 2008 068 13 Basket: Peirene Notebook Page: NB 133, spread 43 (pp. 67 - 68) |
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