Corinth Object: C 2006 23
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2006 23
Title:   KNIDIAN STAMPED AMPHORA HANDLE
Category Code:   C
Year:   2006
Object Number:   23
Description:   Transport amphora with vertcal handle, oval in section, making rounded arch.
Writing:   stamp. Rectangular stamp on top of handle: EPIA/ NEYSNIKASI/ GENEYSKNI Anchor pt. up (lunate sigmas, broken-barred alphas), NIKASIGENEYS as in C-1958-09 (KT 1078)
Material:   Coarse reddish yellow clay fired reddish gray at core with rare small black and mica inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Surface: 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 10R 5/1 (reddish gray), Slip: 7.5YR 8/2 (pinkish white)
Condition:   Fragment. Single fragment from arch of handle, broken at both ends, preserving entire outline of stamp, first and fourth line of stamp almost completely illegible.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   W. 0.09, Th. 0.022
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.08
Period:   Hellenistic
Area:   Panaghia north
Context:   NB976 B70 P157, LOT 2006 006
Provenance:   Knidos
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panaghia north
Image: bw 2007 021 13
Image: bw 2007 021 14
Basket: NB976 B70 P157
Notebook Page: NB 976, spread 86 (pp. 156 - 157)