Corinth Object: C 1934 105
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 105
Title:   PROTOMAIOLCA PITCHER
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   105
Description:   Pitcher with flat bottom, attenuated ovoid body curving into wide neck. Vertical (?) strap handle attached to max. diam. of body.
Decoration:   Upper two-thirds of body decorated with painting and dark yellow glaze. Horizontal and vertical dark brown stripes arranged in panels decorated with triangles and dotted green arc to either side. Two brown stylised branches with green dots at tips of arms. Oblique brown lines on handle.
Material:   Fine pale yellow clay with rare platy and spherical rounded white inclusions and rare spherical rounded gray, few spherical and platy rounded voids
Munsell Color:   Near 2.5Y 7/4 (pale yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Numerous joining frgts., preserving all of foot and body and the start of neck and handle. Painting and glaze well preserved.
Manufacture:   WM
Weight Description:   0.380
Weight:   0.380
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Area:   Forum southwest
Context:   N/A
    NB143 P122
Bibliography:   Corinth XI,p.260 no.926
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southwest
Image: digital 2007 1052
Basket: N/A
Basket: NB143 P122