Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1999 18 | |
Title: | GAZA TRANSPORT AMPHORA | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1999 | |
Object Number: | 18 | |
Description: | Transport amphora with narrow rounded toe, widening to tall, nearly cylindrical body, rounded shoulder, short vertical rim with thickened, rounded lip, two small vertical loop handles attached to shoulder. 2 pierced holes, 1 below shoulder, other on body, 00.167m apart. Globs of clay on shoulder, rim. | |
Decoration: | Wheel ridging above toe and around bottom. 2 bands of combing, smudged in places, on lower body. Wheel ridging below handles. | |
Material: | Moderately fine reddish-yellow clay with fine dark sand-like and some coarser white inclusions | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Complete profile, numerous joining frgts., most of body from toe to break below shoulder, whole shoulder, entire rim and two handles. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.713 D00.037 (toe) D00.205 (body) D00.110 (rim) | |
Weight Description: | 5.32 | |
Weight: | 5.32 | |
Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
Chronology: | Late Roman 6th c. | |
Area: | Panaghia south | |
Context: | NB920 B19 P41 | |
NB920 B15 P33 | ||
Provenance: | Gaza | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 1999 053 20 Basket: NB920 B15 P33 Basket: NB920 B19 P41 Notebook Page: NB 920, spread 21 (pp. 32 - 33) Notebook Page: NB 920, spread 25 (pp. 40 - 41) |