| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1938 748 | |
| Title: | CORINTHIAN TYPE A STAMPED AMPHORA HANDLE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1938 | |
| Object Number: | 748 | |
| Description: | Corinthian type A amphora with vertical handle, nearly round at base and flattening slightly to oval at upper break. | |
| Decoration: | Streaky buff wash on surface. | |
| Writing: | stamp. Stamp at base: 7 petal palmette in oval frame.See Koehler, Diss. no. 135, type I | |
| Material: | Coarse clay fired bright red through most of core, gray at center where thickest, pale pinkish buff at surface, with frequent fine black mudstone inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: slightly redder than 7.5YR 6/4 Core: slightly redder than 2.5YR 5/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving lower half of handle. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W00.039 T00.036 (handle base) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.090 | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | Mid 5th c. (CGK), context 1st c. A.C. | |
| Area: | Forum north central | |
| Context: | NB177 P97 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum north central Image: bw 1998 005 26 Basket: NB177 P97 Notebook Page: NB 177, spread 54 (pp. 97 - 98) |
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