Corinth Object: FB 2013 1 Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | FB 2013 1 | Title: | | HYPOCAUST BRICK | Category: | | Architecture | Category Code: | | FB | Year: | | 2013 | Object Number: | | 1 | Description: | | Circular brick with vertical face, only roughly smoothed underside. Adhering to upper surface thick layer of lime cement with aggregate of ca. 1% large black angular inclusions, 1 milky white pebble (L. 0.011), rare angular red inclusions, much sand. Outer face of brick has grayish slip- possibly just cement (?). | Material: | | Moderately coarse red clay, 1% large round and elongated voids, ca. 2% fine spherical voids, 1-2 fine black angular inclusions, rare lime; fracture relatively smooth. | Munsell Color: | | Yellower than 2.5YR 4/6 (done when wet). | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt. | Dimensions Actual: | | Th. 0.046 (brick), Th. 0.0255 (cement) | Dimensions Restored: | | Est. Diam. 0.28 | Area: | | Theater | Context: | | Theater | | | NB751 B11 P475, LOT 2013 030 | | | LOT 2013 030 | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Monument: Theater
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