Corinth Object: C 1936 635
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 635
Title:   BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED LID
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   635
Description:   Lid with high convex profile, ending in rounded thickened lip.
Decoration:   Exterior has plastic decoration: relief strips curved to form crude arcade circling top of lid, with rows of studs below. Brown glaze unevenly applied, thinning toward bottom.
Material:   Moderately coarse red to red-brown clay with numerous fine to coarser white, brown inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Ca. 2.5YR 6/6 to 2.5YR 5/6
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., most of profile to somewhere below top, ca. 1/4 circumference.
Manufacture:   C73
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.071
Dimensions Restored:   D00.19-00.20 (rim)
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   78 Middle to Late Byzantine
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB160 P81
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0033
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB160 P81
Notebook Page: NB 160, spread 47 (pp. 80 - 81)