Corinth Object: C 1999 18
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1999 18
Title:   GAZA TRANSPORT AMPHORA
Category Code:   C
Year:   1999
Object Number:   18
Description:   Transport amphora with narrow rounded toe, widening to tall, nearly cylindrical body, rounded shoulder, short vertical rim with thickened, rounded lip, two small vertical loop handles attached to shoulder. 2 pierced holes, 1 below shoulder, other on body, 00.167m apart. Globs of clay on shoulder, rim.
Decoration:   Wheel ridging above toe and around bottom. 2 bands of combing, smudged in places, on lower body. Wheel ridging below handles.
Material:   Moderately fine reddish-yellow clay with fine dark sand-like and some coarser white inclusions
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Complete profile, numerous joining frgts., most of body from toe to break below shoulder, whole shoulder, entire rim and two handles.
Dimensions Actual:   H00.713 D00.037 (toe) D00.205 (body) D00.110 (rim)
Weight Description:   5.32
Weight:   5.32
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Late Roman 6th c.
Area:   Panaghia south
Context:   NB920 B19 P41
    NB920 B15 P33
Provenance:   Gaza
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panaghia south
Image: bw 1999 053 20
Basket: NB920 B15 P33
Basket: NB920 B19 P41
Notebook Page: NB 920, spread 21 (pp. 32 - 33)
Notebook Page: NB 920, spread 25 (pp. 40 - 41)