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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | FM 96 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA WATER-PIPE | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | FM | | Object Number: | | 96 | | Description: | | The tile sections, with male and female joints at opposite ends, were united to one another with a fine buff cement which on the exterior formed a "collar" as much as 0.30 m. wide around the joint. This collar was as much as 0.018 m. thick over the joint itself, but was reduced in thickness to the sides. At the bottom, where the pipe lay near the floor of the rock-cut trench, the cement of the joints spread out slightly onto the rock to form a foot holding the pipe firmly in place. | | Material: | | Fine, hard, buff clay strengthened with crushed tile and small pebbles. | | Condition: | | Complete or intact. One full pipe section plus parts of two others and two concreted joints. | | Dimensions Actual: | | Diam. max. ext. at joint 0.253 | | Dimensions Preserved: | | L. 1.13 | | Findspot Description: | | FIB 347, no. 1162 | | Bibliography: | | Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 1982, p.119, cited as MF (note S).; Corinth 20, 2003. | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Williams & Zervos, Hesperia 51:2, 1982
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