Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1938 484 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE INCISED SGRAFFITO BOWL | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1938 | |
Object Number: | 484 | |
Description: | Bowl with low, slightly flaring ring foot and flat undersurface. Flaring convex sides, no rim, rounded lip. | |
Decoration: | Completely covered with white slip. Interior glazed completely. Exterior lip glazed to 0.011. Interior incised decoration: at center, lion standing facing right with head turned back over shoulder; horizontally striped neck and left rear leg; body and legs scraped out to clay; feet, tail, and right foreleg white; curvilinear motifs before and behind lion; near vessel lip, band of incised cross-hatching bound by two reserved bands and two incised concentric circles. | |
Writing: | inscribed. On bottom of bowl, inside ring foot: X | |
Attributes: | F12 | |
Material: | Fine light red clay. | |
Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 6/8 (light red) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Numerous joining and non-joining frgts., preserving complete profile. Slightly abraded on rim and foot. RIP. | |
Manufacture: | C70 | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.067, Diam. base 0.084, D. rim 0.189, Th. 0.007 | |
Weight Description: | 0.334 | |
Weight: | 0.334 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Area: | St. John's south | |
Context: | NB181 P548 | |
Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, Cat. 1494 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: St. John's south Image: digital 2015 1313 Image: digital 2015 1314 Image: digital 2015 1330 Basket: NB181 P548 |