| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 2000 | |
| Title: | ARCHAIC MAIOLICA TABLE AMPHORA | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 2000 | |
| Description: | Table amphora with flaring disk foot with trimmed vertical edge, flat resting surface, undersurface trimmed back slightly. Plump ovoid body with max. diam. just above median. Tall narrow neck. Tall rim (H. 0.058), offset by ridge, widening slightly from neck, rising vertically to flaring lip. Two vertical strap handles with shallow groove down back, attached to max. diam. and neck ridge. | |
| Decoration: | White glaze on exterior and painted decoration. Body: shield on both faces, framed by double black lines below and to sides, shield has straight top edge, pointed bottom, in black outline; central vertical black stripe crossed by short horizontal strokes, framed by two black lines to either side: remainder of shield green. Neck: head profile on both sides and green guilloche under rim framed by two brown lines either side. Brown horizontal stripes on handles. | |
| Material: | Light tan clay with at least 2 coarse black inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Numerous joining frgts., complete profile, one handle; 1/4 foot, 3/4 body, nearly all neck, 1/6 rim; missing nearly all lower body. Glaze worn. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.297 D00.170 (max) | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.10 (foot) D00.10-00.105 (rim) | |
| Weight Description: | 1299 | |
| Weight: | 1299 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 13th-14th c. | |
| Area: | Forum south | |
| Context: | NB174 P159 | |
| Provenance: | Italy | |
| Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat.931; cited in Hesperia 1995, p. 19, note 22 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum south Image: bw 4597 Basket: NB174 P159 |
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