Corinth Object: C 1937 1176
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1176
Title:   LIGHT-ON-DARK SLIP-PAINTED JUG
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1176
Description:   Pitcher (?) with convex body.
Decoration:   Exterior: yellow glaze and slipped double zigzag filled with spirals and dots. Similar to C-1934-620 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 748). Categorized as "imitation lustre ware" on original inventory notebook.
Material:   Fine hard light red clay with rare small and medium subrounded tabular and angular platy white inclusions. Rare subrounded spherical voids.
Munsell Color:   2.5YR 6/6 (light red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small part of body.
Manufacture:   C80
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   With coins to Manuel I (1143-80). 12th century, based on comparanda.
Area:   Forum northeast
Context:   NB168 P109
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum northeast
Image: digital 2014 1246
Basket: NB168 P109