Corinth Object: C 2015 56
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2015 56
Title:   IMPORTED CONICAL BOWL WITH WEST SLOPE
Category Code:   C
Year:   2015
Object Number:   56
Description:   Bowl with slightly flaring ring foot with flat resting surface and convex undersurface to flaring convex body; slight offset on exterior where rim begins.
Decoration:   Well-adhering black glaze by dipping leaving lower body and foot reserved. Incised circle in center of floor filled with four large blobs alternating with four small blobs with central one, all in added clay. Main zone features rows of five dots in added white above and below vegetal motif in added clay and white paint. Single groove at transition to rim; rim zone has horizontal line in white paint. Brown stacking circle in center of floor. No good parallels.
Material:   Fine pink clay with rare small angular platy white inclusions and rare small voids.
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 7/3-4 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., preserving entire foot and less than 1/5 of lower body.
Weight Description:   0.070
Weight:   0.070
Period:   Hellenistic
Chronology:   2nd-1st c. BC, based on context
Area:   South Stoa
Context:   South Stoa, context 61, LOT 2015 087
Provenance:   Peloponnese
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Stoa
Image: digital 2015 3592
Image: digital 2015 3593
Basket: South Stoa, context 61