Corinth Object: MF 14116
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   MF 14116
Title:   STAMPED CONICAL LOOMWEIGHT
Category Code:   MF
Object Number:   14116
Description:   Loomweight with very slightly concave bottom, sides flaring to H00.008-00.010, then contracting towards top. Horizontal suspension hole below top. Surface slipped.
Writing:   stamp. Stamp in center of bottom: figure (satyr ?) in profile to lt. bending forward with legs bent, possibly holding something on back, in pointed oval frame. Perhaps Corinth XII N1110.
Mythology:   Satyr ?
Material:   Coarse tan clay with numerous black and white inclusions (to 2mm.) with fine outer slip of same.
Munsell Color:   Ca. 7.5YR 7/4
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving half bottom and body to suspension hole.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   D00.-51 (bottom, ca.) D00.060 (max)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.062
Period:   5th c. B.C.
Chronology:   2nd half 5th (Cor. XII)
Area:   Early Excavations
Context:   Early Excavations, From box of early excavation material returned fro
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Early Excavations
Basket: Early Excavations, From box of early excavation material returned fro