| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1935 292 | |
| Title: | LUSTRE WARE BOWL | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1935 | |
| Object Number: | 292 | |
| Old Number: | C-1935-293 (lapsed) | |
| Related Objects: | C-1935-294 | |
| Description: | Bowl with vertical ring foot, pierced for suspension, flattened resting surface, rounded undersurface. Straight flaring body, rising at 45 degrees to round lip. For shape cf. Philon, Early Islamic Ceramics fig. 395 p. 194. | |
| Decoration: | Decorated in copper colour: floor: divided in two by central band with reserved Kufic inscription, repeated in each half (cf. Philon, fig. 466). On interior body continuous Arabic inscription, near Philon fig. 398. Band with scalloped edge below lip. On exterior, isolated stripes, inscription ? and single stroke on floor, signature ? | |
| Writing: | dipinto. (cf. Decoration) | |
| Material: | Sandy fine buff clay. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Three frgts., apparently joining give 3/4 foot, floor and small part of body, lip; assembled in plaster with two non-joining frgts., C-1935-294 + unknown piece. | |
| Manufacture: | C69 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.072 D00.125 (foot) | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.255 (lip) | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 10th to mid 11th (Philon) | |
| Area: | Forum southeast | |
| Context: | NB148 P57 | |
| Provenance: | Egypt ? | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum southeast Basket: NB148 P57 |
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