Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1975 184 | |
Title: | LATE ROMAN AMPHORA | |
FRAGMENT STAMPED ARRETIN E PLATE | ||
ARCHITECTURE | ||
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1975 | |
Object Number: | 184 | |
Description: | Rounded body, steep shoulder, surving into narrow slightly tapering neck, outward thickened rounded rim; two vertical strap handles from neck to shoulders. Faint wheel-ridges on body, shoulder and neck. | |
Broken ring foot on flate plate bottom. On the upper surface are two shallow grooves encircling the inside of the plate above the outside edge of the foot. | ||
Decoration: | glossy reddish brown glaze | |
Writing: | stamp. Stamp partially preserved (pediform?) in center reading: C CAF | |
Material: | Fine hard clay with mica, scattered white inclusions | |
Fine hard buff clay. | ||
Munsell Color: | 5 YR 6/4-6/6 (light red-brown to red-yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Four joining fragments giving upper body to rim , two handles. | |
Fragment. Single fragment broken all around preserving part of stamped inscription. | ||
Dimensions Preserved: | P.H 0.214 D. rim 0.063 | |
Dim. 0.050m. Max | ||
Chronology: | Probably 5th century A.D | |
Area: | Forum southwest | |
Forum | ||
Context: | NB623 B23 P25 | |
NB619 B4 P19 | ||
Findspot Description: | A-10 | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 1976, p.135,n.79 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Forum Monument: Forum southwest |