Corinth Object: C 1947 247
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1947 247
Title:   ONE-HANDLED CHYTRA
Category Code:   C
Year:   1947
Object Number:   247
Description:   Chytra with ovoid body. Flaring rim, slightly concave on interior, with inward-beveled lip. Flange as rounded ridge; above it is in-line with the rim in places but distinct from it in others; below, in-line with interior of the body. Thickened strap handle projecting slightly above rim. Wheel ridges on interior. Traces of burning on exterior.
Material:   Coarse red clay with rare large white, red, and black and few small to medium yellow, white, and black spherical sub-rounded to angular inclusions, rare very fine sparkling inclusions, rare small to large voids
Munsell Color:   Surface: 2.5YR 5/6 (red) to 5YR 4/1 (dark grey), Core: 2.5YR 5/2 (weak red)
Condition:   Fragment. Three joining frgts., preserving upper half of body, most of rim, and whole handle; missing lower half.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   Diam. Of rim 0.089
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.072, max. H. 0.074
Weight Description:   0.158
Weight:   0.158
Area:   South Stoa east
Context:   NB195 P42
Bibliography:   Corinth VII.3, no. 655, p. 122
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Edwards, Corinth 7:3, 1975
Monument: South Stoa east
Basket: NB195 P42
Notebook Page: NB 195, spread 26 (pp. 41 - 42)