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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | C 2013 1 | | Title: | | STAMPED TERRACOTTA MORTAR OR BASIN | | Category Code: | | C | | Year: | | 2013 | | Object Number: | | 1 | | Description: | | Mortar or basin with heavy downturned rim, with wheel-ridging on underside, rounded lip, incised line on joining inner edge of rim and body. Cf. C-37-1209, C-62-31, C-2003-4, C-2004-12. | | Writing: | | stamp. Rectangular stamp with double border set vertically across rim; Latin, line of block letters: ..]MRESTI. Traces of one or two hastae to left of M. Unclear if one or more lines. | | Material: | | Coarse very pale brown clay, fired pink at core, with frequent, large, gold and silver mica platelets, large to very large mudstone (up to 0.006), fine platy black inclusions. | | Munsell Color: | | Core: 5YR 8/4 (pink), Surface: 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgmt preserving small part of rim, broken through inscribed stamp. | | Manufacture: | | WM | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H. 0.040, L. 0.170 | | Dimensions Restored: | | Diam. of rim 0.650 | | Period: | | Roman | | Chronology: | | From comparanda: C-2004-12 from Early Roman context (late 1st BC - early 1st AC); C-2003-4 from Middle Roman wall fill (2nd-3rd AC?); C-62-31 from closed well fill with a coin of Antoninus Pius | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Context: | | Nezi Field, context 978 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Nezi Field
Image: digital 2013 0823
Basket: Nezi Field, context 978
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