Corinth Object: C 1935 997A
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1935 997A
Title:   MOLDMADE BOWL OF PR WORKSHOP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1935
Object Number:   997
Object Suffix:   A
Related Objects:   C 1935 997B, C 1935-997C
Description:   Bowl with convex body with nearly vertical walls to a tapered slightly outturned lip. Similar to Cor. VII.3 no. 843
Decoration:   Entire surface covered in black glaze. Body has a foliage pattern with a repeated motif of an acanthus with its top folded forwards flanked by linear style leaves with a single central spine. Stamped signature of the PR workshop above foliage. Band of ivy guilloche pointing left. Foliage motif similar to Siebart pl. 84, no. 5; A 65, 66 p. 27, pl. 6, pl. 71 no. 5; p. 34, no. DI 28, 32, 49, pl. 75 no. 8. For PR workshop, C. M. Edwards 1981 p. 182.
Writing:   stamp. Below rim zone, PR
Material:   Fine pale yellow clay with rare, small to medium tabular rounded gray and orange inclusions, rare small tabular angular white inclusions and rare small tabular angular voids
Munsell Color:   10YR 8/4 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., preserving 1/10 rim and 1/10 body.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Preserved:   Max. p. H. 0.084
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. of rim 0.15
Weight Description:   0.035
Weight:   0.035
Period:   2nd c. B.C.
Chronology:   mid-2nd c. BC or later
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   South Stoa well XII, lot 3658
Bibliography:   James diss 2010
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: James, The Hellenistic pottery from the ... 2010
Image: digital 2010 4362