Corinth Object: C 1947 242
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1947 242
Title:   MORTARIUM
Category Code:   C
Year:   1947
Object Number:   242
Description:   Disk foot, concave underside, deep bowl, high pronounced lip, rim fairly horizontal (not curving down); two handles, each with four piecrust fingerholds. Spout insufficiently preserved to determine form. Much wear in bowl; at break of bowl only 0.004 thick. Rim WM, rest MM (?).
Material:   Large to medium red and gray inclusionsand grit.
Munsell Color:   Core 2.5YR 6/6 to 5YR 7/6; surface 10YR 8/4-7/4
Condition:   Missing parts. Six joining fragments preserve most of bowl (center missing), chips from rim; handles and beginning of spout preserved.
Chronology:   To 146 with Mummian destruction.
Area:   South Stoa
Context:   NB195 P45
Bibliography:   Corinth VII.3, p. 111, no. 626, pls. 22, 59; Villing & Pemberton 2010, Hesperia 79.4, cat. 59
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Stoa
Image: bw 1962 027 34
Image: bw 2006 002 02
Basket: NB195 P45
Notebook Page: NB 195, spread 23 (pp. 35 - 36)
Notebook Page: NB 195, spread 28 (pp. 45 - 46)