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) |