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MOB 6. Mobile artifacts. (Pitchers/Jugs).
Present location: Naval Museum, Capo Colonna.
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Description: Only the necks, rims, and part of the handle of five containers are on display
at the Naval Museum of Capo Colonna. The necks are short and straight, and the flaring
rims have a raised band at the end of their inner edge. Some grooves are present at the
attachment of the neck to the container’s body. The single handle is vertical, it rises above
the rim, and is decorated with two grooves.
Because the bodies are not preserved, and because it was not possible to take
measurements of the mouth’s wideness and height, it is not possible to determine if the
intact vessel was a pitcher or a jug.
Origin: Uncertain, possibly eastern Aegean (Klazomenai), or Black Sea. 371
Geographical Distribution: Croton, Corinth, Athens, Ostia.
Content: Unknown.
Date range: Second half of the second century-third century A.D., based on parallels from
the Athenian agora, 372 the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in Corinth, 373 and Ostia. 374
Fabric: Reddish-brown in color, with small, white and dark inclusions.
otes: Discovered in 1983, during the Aquarius’ excavation
Bibliography: Unpublished.
371 Warner Slane 1990, 100, n. 215-6.
372 Robinson 1959, 92, M 101, plates 23, 73.
373 Warner Slane 1990, 100-4, n. 215-6.
374 Panella 1973, 203, 430, fig. 342.