| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1934 111 | |
| Title: | ARCHAIC MAIOLICA PITCHER | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1934 | |
| Object Number: | 111 | |
| Description: | Pitcher with flat bottom, false ring foot curving without articulation into ovoid body, (max diam. In the middle) flaring rim, rounded lip, triangular spout attacched to body and rim. | |
| Decoration: | On exterior: white glaze over all except on lower body and foot., zone on upper half of body divided into four panels by vertical black lines. The panel flanking the spout is decorated with groups of vertical lines in triangular formation, two panel have a leaf motif decorated in green and the fouth is undecorated. The rim and the spout are adorned by horizontal black strips and one green. Green glaze inside. | |
| Material: | Fine very pale brown clay with rare spherical and platy rounded white inclusions and few platy rounded voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | Near 10YR 7/4 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Numerous joining frgts preserving all of pitcher except for small parts of rim and lip. Glaze and painting well conserved in ca. 1/2 of body with missing parts on the other side. Glaze on interior bad conserved. Restored in plaster. | |
| Manufacture: | WM+MM | |
| Weight Description: | 0.309 with plaster | |
| Weight: | 0.309 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Area: | Forum southwest West Shops | |
| Context: | NB143 P143 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI, p.261, no.932, cited in Hesperia 1995, p.21 note 28 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum southwest West Shops Image: bw 4512 Image: digital 2007 1051 Basket: NB143 P143 Notebook Page: NB 143, spread 77 (pp. 143 - 144) |
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