Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1946 38 | |
Title: | HELLENISTIC ONE-HANDLED FLANGED CHYTRA | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1946 | |
Object Number: | 38 | |
Description: | Chytra with slightly flattened bottom, ovoid body with max. diam. Below median at 0.045. Wheel groove at rim attachment. Flaring rim with inward beveled lip, conacave inside. Flange as downward sloping ridge inside rim, slight ridge at edge; below, flange forms thick band with gradual transition to body interior. Thickened strap handle attached just above maximum diameter, rising slightly higher than rim; body attachment offset from rim. Wheel ridges inside. Traces of buring on outside. | |
Material: | Coarse red clay fired reddish-gray on outside with frequent large to very large white, yellow and gray inclusions, spherical to tabular and sub-rounded to angular; rare very large voids | |
Munsell Color: | Surface: from 10R 6/4 (pale red) to 2.5Y N 4/0 (dark gray), Core: 2.5 YR 5/6 (red) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Many joining frgts., preserving three-quarters of body, two-thirds of rim, all of handle | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. to rim, max. 0.116, H. 0.120, max. Diam. 0.142, Diam. Of rim 0.096 | |
Weight Description: | 0.326 | |
Weight: | 0.326 | |
Area: | South Stoa east | |
Context: | NB194 P157 | |
Bibliography: | Corinth VII.3 no. 653, p. 122. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Edwards, Corinth 7:3, 1975 Monument: South Stoa east Image: bw 1962 028 27 Basket: NB194 P157 Notebook Page: NB 194, spread 84 (pp. 157 - 158) |