Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 2185 | |
Title: | STONE MOLD FOR AMPULLA | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Object Number: | 2185 | |
Description: | Thick block with smooth sides and back. Impression in top for ampulla with cylindrical body, narrow cylindrical neck with 2 rings at top, outward thickened narrow rim; 2 vertical handles attached to shoulder and top of neck. Body decorated with spokes of dots, ring of dots around circumference; neck: row of dots at base, hatched bands flanking boxed triangles, handles decorated with dots. Conical hole in upper rt. corner of mould; on back, hole filled with bronze. | |
Material: | Hard, dense pinkish limestone | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving half block with upper half of vessel; large chip in upper right corner with part of back; flake from side of impression. | |
Dimensions Actual: | L00.068 T00.039 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | W00.047 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Chronology: | ? Byzantine or later | |
Area: | New Museum | |
Context: | New Museum, From New Museum Plateia. Exact find place not reco | |
Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 576 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Davidson, Corinth 12, 1952 Monument: New Museum Basket: New Museum, From New Museum Plateia. Exact find place not reco |