Corinth Object: C 1929 48
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1929 48
Title:   ROMAN RELIEF WARE BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1929
Object Number:   48
Description:   Vertical body with slightly angled base to false ring foot. Moulding below rim and above base.
Decoration:   Dull black glaze. Upper moulding consists of one undecorated band and one punctuated by small vertical lines. Lower moulding along base includes two horizontal grooves. One left, lower body of one figure wearing a sheep-skin garment (a shepherd?). To right, a tree, and a figure reaching upwards to pick fruit with table behind, objects on top. Accords with Spitzer's Type III, Fig. 16 p, e.
Probably the same mould as CP 1643, according to Spitzer (p. 189).
Material:   hard fine clay with small black inclusions
Munsell Color:   10 YR 6/2 (light brownish gray)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving very small part of rim, and portion of body and base. Gray color is due to over-firing. Glaze is nearly worn off.
Manufacture:   C26 MW
Dimensions Preserved:   H: 0.056
Area:   North of Peribolos of Apollo
Context:   NB104 P224
    Peribolos of Apollo, Area north of Peribolos of Apollo. 8/M at depth of
Bibliography:   Spitzer, Hesperia 1942, p. 189, no. III.5
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Spitzer, Hesperia 11:2, 1942
Monument: North of Peribolos of Apollo
Basket: NB104 P224
Basket: Peribolos of Apollo, Area north of Peribolos of Apollo. 8/M at depth of