Corinth Object: C 1937 1153
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1153
Title:   BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1153
Description:   Cup with flaring slightly convex lower body turning sharply up to vertical upper body. Plain tapering rim. Vertical handle, with oval section, attaches below rim and to angle of lower and upper body.
Decoration:   Plain brown glazed. Two incised horizontal lines on lower body and two on upper and lower body. Incised wavy line on upper body below handle attachment. Olive-yellow glaze patchily applied on upper wall inside and outside and much more thickly applied to lower surfaces. On the inside the thicker glaze has dribbled towards rim. Probably sprinkled. Similar to C-1937-1960
Material:   Medium hard, red (2.5 YR 5/8) to gray, fired black at core
Munsell Color:   2.5 YR 5/8
Condition:   Fragment. Two frgts., preserving about 1/4 of rim and body and stumps of one handle.
Manufacture:   C 73
Weight Description:   0.073 Kg
Weight:   0.073
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   10th century (Guy Sanders)
Area:   Forum northeast
Context:   NB168 P75
    Forum northeast
Findspot Description:   Medieval fill q-t: 58-61 + 1.20 to 0.70 NB168 P075
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum northeast
Image: digital 2014 1353
Basket: Forum northeast
Basket: NB168 P75
Notebook Page: NB 168, spread 49 (pp. 74 - 75)