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[Corinth Object] MF 1998 3: TURKISH PIPE WITH ROUNDED BOWL

Hemispherical bowl with fillet at base of vertical (?) rim, thick shank with bulbous rim.For shape see Robinson C81. Lower part of bowl carved with wide band of four rows of scallops, roulettes between ... Turkish, 19th century according to Robinson parallels

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[Corinth Object] MF 1998 4: TURKISH PIPE WITH LILY-SHAPED BOWL

Lily-shaped bowl with flaring rim, shank attached to bowl at 30-degree angle, with fine fillet at break. See Robinson C109 ff. for shape. Decorative stamp on both face of bowl: small hatched circle crowned ... Turkish, Robinson parallels suggest 19th-20th century

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[Corinth Object] MF 1998 5: STONE VESSEL

Slightly rounded bottom, possibly cylindrical walls (insufficiently preserved). Grayish-blue schisty stone. Fragment. Three joining frgts., preserving 1/3 base, beginning of vessel walls. Blackened on ... Middle Byz. Context: 1st half 11th century AD

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[Corinth Object] MF 1998 6: LEAD SEAL

Flat, imperfectly round disk with broken string hole. Obverse: monogrammatic cross cutting this side of seal into quadrants, circle at central crossing; rope design around entire circumference. stamp ... 1998/05/25

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[Corinth Object] MF 1998 7: INSCRIBED SQUARE BRONZE WEIGHT

Flat, square weight. Corinth XII, 1, 1592 inscribed. Inscribed on top of weight, cross on top-middle, in Latin: NS (6 nomismata) below cross. Letters deeply incised with shallower and wider outline. Corinth ... late 4th c or later, Context early 7thc

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[Corinth Object] MF 1998 8: BYZANTINE BRONZE FINGER RING

Simple finger ring consisting of thin sheet of bronze, soldered at narrow end; band widens from soldered joint to center of "bezel", all worked in one, bent slightly so that "bezel" angular; narrow slit ... Context mid 12th c.

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[Corinth Object] MF 1998 9: BYZANTINE BRONZE FINGER RING

Thin sheet of bronze, cut in a strip that widens from cut ends to center; center pressed out slightly to make convex "bezel". Strip then soldered opposite "bezel". Incised decoration: bezel: 4 linked spirals ... Context mid 12th c.

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[Corinth Object] MF 1998 10: MARBLE OPUS SECTILE

A piece of opus sectile, cut in shape of an acanthus (?) leaf: narrow stem, one smoothly curving edge with convex profile; on opposite side, 3 notched serrations of leaf. Sides vertical, except for small ... 77 Late 7th-9th c.