Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1999 57 | |
Title: | IMPORTED STEWPOT | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1999 | |
Object Number: | 57 | |
Old Number: | Lot 1999-22:3 (number lapsed) | |
Description: | Stewpot with flat bottom, almost spherical body, curving sharply up to vertical rim with rounded lip. Strap handle from max. diam. to upper shoulder. | |
Decoration: | Slightly wheel-ridged upper body. | |
Material: | Medium hard very dark gray clay with few irregular shaped gold sparkling spherical/angular inclusions, white subrounded spherical inclusions, irregular voids, and granular break. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 3/1 (very dark gray) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Many joining frgts., preserving complete profile. Missing 1/3 body, half rim, and possibly one handle. RIP. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Weight Description: | 0.665 | |
Weight: | 0.665 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Chronology: | late 8th/early 9th c., according to R. Valente | |
Area: | Panayia | |
Context: | NB913 B50 P119 | |
NB920 B79 P157 | ||
Provenance: | Imported | |
Findspot Description: | Lot 1999-22; basket 79 NB920 P157 and 50 year 1999, NB913 P119 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Panayia Image: digital 2015 4106 Basket: NB913 B50 P119 Basket: NB920 B79 P157 Notebook Page: NB 923, spread 34 (pp. 57 - 58) |