Corinth Object: C 1928 77
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1928 77
Title:   LATE ROMAN C WARE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1928
Object Number:   77
Description:   Rectangular body sherd of thin vessel (plate?), thumb indented on exterior so that the sherd is raised slightly in the center.
Decoration:   Stamped impression of cross-monogram with two pendants below arms and single outline of small rho. Pendants are circular and positioned in angles between the horizontal and vertical arms.
Hayes (1972, p. 365) lists comparanda, including Athens Agora P 689 (double rho)
Material:   fine clay with few small black and gray inclusions
Munsell Color:   10R 5/6 (red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., from center of vessel, broken on all sides. Slip mostly well-preserved.
Manufacture:   C29 C50
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.072, W. 0.050
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Hayes Group III, late fifth-early sixth century AD
Area:   Justinian's Wall
Context:   Justinian's Wall, Trial trenches SW of aqueduct to E of city. Aqued
Bibliography:   Hayes LRP (1972), p. 364-5, Fig. 78j
Site:   Justinian's Wall
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Hayes, , Late Roman Pottery1972
Monument: Justinian's Wall
Basket: Justinian's Wall, Trial trenches SW of aqueduct to E of city. Aqued
Notebook Page: NB 97, spread 33 (p. 55)