| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 2006 1 | |
| Title: | MIDDLE GEOMETRIC I NECK-HANDLED AMPHORA | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 2006 | |
| Object Number: | 1 | |
| Description: | Neck-handled amphora with flaring ring foot, flat resting surface, slightly convex undersurface, ovoid body with max. diam. above the median of the body, cylindrical neck flaring out to echinus-shaped rim with rounded lip; vertical strap handles attached to shoulder and neck at two thirds of its height. Profile similar to CP 860 (Corinth VII.1, p. 17, no. 58, pl. 10). | |
| Decoration: | Black glaze overall with reserved undersurface and resting surface of foot; four sets of three reserved lines at regular intervals on body up to max. diam.; reserved band below handles, with three reserved lines framing black solid double axes alternating with groups of regularly 14 (in one exception 22) black vertical lines; window-panel on either side of neck with three reserved lines above and below (four lines above on one side) enclosing from bottom to top gear pattern, three reserved lines, and hatched meander pattern; black vertical lines in reserved band around lip; black band continues just inside rim; handles reserved on undersurface, horizontal black lines on top. Decoration similar, but not identical, to Kerameikos 866 (Coldstream, Greek Geometric Pottery, 1968, pl. 3d). | |
| Material: | Fine very pale brown clay with few tabular angular white, few large to very large tabular angular brown inclusions, rare medium to very large platy angular voids, conchoidal break. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Mended from several fragments. Entire vessel preserved, except for chips missing from foot, body, and rim. Glaze preserved on one side, completely worn off on the other. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.546, Diam. of base 0.127, Diam. max. 0.32, Diam. of rim 0.185, Th. of rim 0.008 | |
| Weight Description: | 5.22 | |
| Weight: | 5.22 | |
| Period: | Middle Geometric (825-750) | |
| Chronology: | MG I; CP 860 dated to EG in Corinth VII.1, but MG I by DeVries; Kerameikos 866 dated to MG I. | |
| Area: | Panaghia west | |
| Context: | NB979 B43 P75, LOT 2006 018 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | In pit up against the east side of the sarcophagus of Grave 2006 4, with skyphos C 2006 2 in its mouth. | |
| Bibliography: | Sanders et al., Hesperia 83:1, 2014 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Sanders et al., Hesperia 83:1, 2014 Monument: Panaghia west Images (6) Basket: NB979 B43 P75 Notebook Page: NB 979, spread 46 (pp. 75 - 76) |
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