Corinth Object: C 1937 1148
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1148
Title:   INSCRIBED WARE CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1148
Description:   Cup with flaring ring foot, carinated walls, strap handle, flaring rim, rounded vertical lip.
Decoration:   Interior and exterior yellow glaze, brown band with impressions. Interior: eleven-petalled rosette faintly impressed. Exterior: broad reddish-brown stripe on upper part of body with vertical inscribed lines. Yellow glaze all over except most of foot. Similar to C-1937-660 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 129).
Material:   Coarse pinkish white clay, white at surface, medium to very large red few and brown medium rounded spherical rare inclusions. Rare angular platy voids.
Munsell Color:   5YR8/2 (pinkish white)
Condition:   Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving entire base, approx. 1/2 body, start of one handle, small part of rim. Glaze slightly worn.
Period:   Byzantine
Chronology:   based on comparanda
Area:   Forum northeast
Context:   NB168 P70
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum northeast
Image: digital 2014 1047
Image: digital 2014 1048
Basket: NB168 P70