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MOB 5. Mobile artifact. (Amphora).
Amphora-type “Warner Slane 249”
Present location: Naval Museum, Capo Colonna.
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Description: This amphora is characterized by two vertical handles, which arch and curve
outwards from the shoulder to the top of the neck. The flaring rim is quite narrow. The
bulging neck is tall and decorated with broad wheel-ridging, not as sharp and deeply
marked as in MOB 3 and MOB 4. No remains of the body or toe have survived, and since
the only probable parallel from Corinth is fragmentary as well, it is impossible to
determine their exact shapes. The bright orange color of the fabric, and the presence of
quartz grains closely resemble the texture of MOB 3 and MOB 4.
Origin: Eastern Mediterranean?
Geographical Distribution: Croton, Corinth.
Content: Unknown.
Date range: First-half of the third century A.D. based on the excavations at the sanctuary
of Demeter and Kore in Corinth. 370
Fabric: Bright orange in color, with inclusions of big grains of quartz, similar to MOB 3
and MOB 4.
otes: Discovered in 1983, during the Aquarius’ excavation
Bibliography: Unpublished.
370 Warner Slane 1990, 116, fig. 249.