Corinth Object: C 1935 497a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1935 497a
Title:   POLYCHROME CONSTANTINOPOLITAN WHITE WARE BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1935
Object Number:   497
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C 1935 497b, C 1935 497c, C 1935 497d, C 1935 497e
Description:   Low, slightly flaring ring foot. Flaring concave wall curving up to outturned rim.
Decoration:   Type 3b. Horse outlined in manganese on brown/green field being attacked by two lions with yellow/brown glaze infill. Floral patterns on upper wall with brown/green background. Yellow/brown on rim. Splotches of red out. Thick overglaze inside t over lip.
Material:   Medium Hard clay with white, red and gray inclusions. Smooth to slightly hackly and slightly conchoidal break.
Munsell Color:   5 YR 7/4
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., from bottom of bowl
Manufacture:   C 82
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   late 11th century (Guy Sanders)
Area:   St. John's
Context:   St. John's
Findspot Description:   NB 150 p.172
Bibliography:   Corinth XI, N00373, fig.49a, pl. XVIa; Sanders 2001, p.97, N050
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: St. John's
Image: digital 2014 1862
Image: digital 2014 1863