Corinth Object: C 1936 471
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 471
Title:   SMALL GREEN-BROWN PAINTED AMPHORA WITH PLASTICDECORATION
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   471
Description:   Small amphora with disk foot, globular body, narrow neck. Two vertical strap handles attached just above max. diam.
Decoration:   On either face on shoulder, large plastic lizard with long mouth, flat tail, decorated with impressed dotted circles - 1 for eye, rest on body. Brown and green streaks of paint over all, over white slip, and clear glaze.
Material:   Fine light tan clay with scattered white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Between 7.5YR 7/4 and 5YR 7/5
Condition:   Fragment. Several joining frgts., complete to base of neck; both handle bases; missing neck-rim, handles.
Manufacture:   C84
Dimensions Actual:   D00.048 (foot) D00.082 (body) D00.027 (neck)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.088
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Area:   South Stoa middle
Context:   NB151 P101
Bibliography:   Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 425
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: South Stoa middle
Basket: NB151 P101
Notebook Page: NB 151, spread 59 (pp. 100 - 101)