| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1961 67 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE AMPHORA WITH GRAFFITO | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1961 | |
| Object Number: | 67 | |
| Description: | Amphora with rounded shoulder (and probably ovoid body), vertical, squared rim, and attachment for vertical, round or oval handle; upper shoulder and neck/rim are melded on from a separate piece of clay | |
| Decoration: | Pronounced ribbing on body up to upper shoulder, pale yellow ( 2.5Y 8/3) slip on exterior, continuing onto upper part of interior surface while changing color to pink (7.5YR 8/3) | |
| Writing: | graffito. Monogram of two letters, one above the other, scratched into upper shoulder: | |
| Material: | Light reddish brown clay displaying fairly smooth breaks; sandy in texture, with rare very large gray and tan, sub-rounded spherical inclusions, few small to medium black and white inclusions, and few medium, tabular voids | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/4 (light reddish brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving a large part of the body and around 40% of the rim, including a break where one handle was attached | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Diam. of handle 0.038 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | W. 0.208, H. 0.120 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Rim diam. 0.080 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.407 | |
| Weight: | 0.407 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 11th to early 12th century AD. See Sarachane II (1992), pp. 73-5, no. 54b, fig. 24.8-11 | |
| Area: | Agora southwest | |
| Context: | NB229 B11 P183, LOT 0683 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Agora southwest Image: bw 1961 035 09 Basket: NB229 B11 P183 |
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