Corinth Object: C 1938 530
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 530
Title:   POLYCHROME WHITE WARE BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   530
Description:   Bowl with body spreading horizontally, then turning up vertically; ridge offsets low, slightly everted rim with round lip.
Decoration:   Exterior, broad band on body, limited below by blue-green stripe between black lines; on body, pseudo-Kufic in blue-green, black outline; black line and yellow stripe on rim, inside and out. Clear glaze over all.
Material:   Fine white clay fired to pale pink near outer surface, with tiny black, a few red inclusions.
Condition:   Fragment. Five joining frgts., complete body profile to rim, nearly 1/2 floor, 1/4 body to rim.
Manufacture:   C67
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.072
Dimensions Restored:   D00.13-00.14 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine Context Frankish
Area:   St. John's
Context:   NB182 P624
Provenance:   Constantinople
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: St. John's
Image: digital 2014 2710
Basket: NB182 P624