Corinth Object: C 1961 58 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | C 1961 58 | | Title: | | STAMPED AMPHORA HANDLE OF PARMENISKOS GROUP | | Category Code: | | C | | Year: | | 1961 | | Object Number: | | 58 | | Description: | | Thick vertical strap handle attached at neck | | Writing: | | dipinto and stamp. Circular stamp on top of handle, with a small omega (O) between the lower part of an eta (H), the bottom of which faces the neck. Around the neck are the traces of red (10R 4/8) paint, likely part of a dipinto | | Material: | | Coarse reddish yellow clay with few medium to very large white, brown and black, sub-angular, tabular inclusions, and rare, but very large, gold mica | | Munsell Color: | | 7.5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Top part of handle broken off at neck, with around half of the interior surface of the neck flaked off | | Manufacture: | | HW | | Dimensions Actual: | | W. 0.052, Th. 0.020 | | Dimensions Preserved: | | L. 0.077 | | Weight Description: | | 0.125 | | Weight: | | 0.125 | | Period: | | Hellenistic | | Chronology: | | For the Parmeniskos Group, see Grace, Hesperia Supplement 10 (1956), pp. 168-9; Grace, Hesperia 54.1 (1985), p. 19; Getov, in Studies on settlement life in ancient Thrace: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium 'Cabyle' (1994), pp. 247-51 | | Area: | | Forum | | Context: | | NB229 B13 P170 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Forum
Basket: NB229 B13 P170
Notebook Page: NB 229, spread 90 (pp. 170 - 171)
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