Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 2016 5 | |
Title: | UNFLANGED SMALL COOKING POT WITH BLUE PIGMENT | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 2016 | |
Object Number: | 5 | |
Description: | Cooking pot with horizontal lip, flaring rim, globular body, flat bottom, and vertical strap handle attached to lip. Slight burnishing on exterior. Pieces of blue pigment adhered to interior. Similar to C-1971-88. 2017/02/27: Andrew Ward tested blue pigment tested with X-ray fluorescence (XRF), appears to be Egyptian blue. | |
Material: | Coarse red to weak red clay with few medium white spherical angular inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Fabric: 10R 5/6 (red) to 2.5YR 4/2 (weak red) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Approx. 40 joining frgts., mended together, and 3 unmended frgts., with blue pigment, preserving approx. 90% of vessel, 2/3 of rim. | |
Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | based on comparanda | |
Area: | South Stoa | |
Context: | South Stoa, context 456 | |
South Stoa, context 456, LOT 2016 003 | ||
LOT 2016 044 | ||
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: South Stoa Image: digital 2017 1821 Image: digital 2017 1822 Basket: South Stoa, context 456 |