Corinth Object: C 1975 184
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