Corinth Object: C 2005 31
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2005 31
Title:   LAGYNOS
Category Code:   C
Year:   2005
Object Number:   31
Description:   Lagynos with biconical body with steep shoulder to nearly horizontal upper body with tapering narrow cylindrical neck to outward thickened vertical lip. One vertical flattened oval handle attached at shoulder and below lip. Shape and decoration similar to Agora XXXII, pp. 83-4, 225, no. 104, fig. 16, pl. 16 (ca. 225-210 BC).
Decoration:   Pink slip on exterior. Faint groove around base of neck. Two thumbmarks on base of handle.
Material:   Fine granular light reddish brown clay with frequent fine to small subrounded tabular white inclusions, few fine to small subrounded platy dark gray inclusions, few fine sparkling inclusions, and rare small voids.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/4
Condition:   Fragment. Many joining frgts., preserving part of shoulder, all of neck, lip and handle. Traces of pink slip on exterior.
Manufacture:   WM
Weight Description:   0.58
Weight:   0.58
Period:   3rd c. B.C.
Chronology:   last quarter 3rd c. BC, based on context and comparanda
Area:   Panaghia south
Context:   NB966 B112 P193, LOT 2005 006
Provenance:   Chios or Rhodes
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panaghia south
Basket: NB966 B112 P193