| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 2009 11 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE AMPHORA | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 2009 | |
| Object Number: | 11 | |
| Description: | Amphora with a round bottom with a circular groove at the center of base. Ovoid body with maximum diameter at shoulder. Shoulder tapers sharply to a round narrow neck with a squared outturned lip. Two oval vertical handles attached at shoulder and below rim. Neck warped during firing so that it is off center; rim badly misshapen and vitrified in the kiln. Similar to C 77-233. | |
| Material: | Coarse yellow clay with rare very large tabular angular gray and red-brown stone inclusions, rare medium angular and platy rounded orange and brown inclusions and rare small to large voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Core 2.5YR 8/3 (pale yellow) | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. More than thirty joining fragments preserve all of base, nine-tenths of body and one-tenth of rim. Some non-joining fragments in the lot. Surface and fabric darkened at top of shoulder, neck and rim during firing. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.67, max. Diam 0.34 | |
| Weight Description: | 9.04 | |
| Weight: | 9.04 | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 8th-9th c. AD | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context: | Nezi Field, context 6612, LOT 2009 089 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Nezi Field Image: digital 2010 4285 Image: digital 2016 0918 Image: digital 2016 0919 Basket: Nezi Field, context 6612 |
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