Corinth Object: C 1928 39
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1928 39
Title:   ROMAN RELIEF WARE BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1928
Object Number:   39
Description:   Vertical body sherd of bowl, slightly outturned. Rim is smoothly squared with moulding below. Interior curves outward slightly.
Decoration:   Smooth dull red glaze. Moulding consists of two shallow horizontal grooves. Moulded scene on body depicts hunter with pole across shoulder with animal slung over it (possibly a boar or hare). Another figure holds up the other end of the pole. Ivy and shrubbery suggested in the background. After Spitzer's Type IV, Hunting Scenes. Identified by Malfitana 2007 as a "theoxenia"scene.
Material:   fine clay with few small gray inclusions
Munsell Color:   7/5 YR 6/4 (light brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving portion of body and rim. Slip mostly well-preserved.
Manufacture:   C26 MW
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.047
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. of rim 0.100
Area:   Odeion
Context:   NB101 P119
Bibliography:   Spitzer, Hesperia 1942, p. 190, no. IV.1
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Spitzer, Hesperia 11:2, 1942
Monument: Odeion
Basket: NB101 P119
Notebook Page: NB 101, spread 66 (pp. 119 - 120)