Corinth Object: C 1937 1821
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1821
Title:   LIGHT-ON-DARK SLIP-PAINTED BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1821
Description:   Bowl with low flaring ring foot, flat resting surface, rounded undersurface. Straight flaring body rising at 30 degrees to H00.07, vertical rim H00.029, closing slightly to rounded lip.
Decoration:   Pale slip over all. On interior, decoration painted in light slip: central medallion with palmette filled with 2 spirals; broad band of spiral pattern; white stripe on interior of lip. Clear glaze over interior, exterior of rim.
Material:   Moderately fine red clay with scattered black, white inclusions, fracture rough.
Munsell Color:   Between 5YR 6/4 and 2.5YR 5/6
Condition:   Complete profile. 22 joining frgts., complete profile. 3/4 foot, 3/5 body to rim, missing holes, RiP.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Actual:   H00.101 D00.121 (foot) D00.282 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Byzantine Coins to Manuel I (1143-80)
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB174 P76
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0754
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum south central
Image: bw 4592
Basket: NB174 P76
Notebook Page: NB 174, spread 43 (pp. 75 - 76)