| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1929 13 | |
| Title: | PROTOMAIOLICA BOWL WITH SHELL | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1929 | |
| Object Number: | 13 | |
| Description: | Protomaiolica bowl, carelessly thown low, ring foot with nippled undersurface. Nearly hemispherical body, turning in slightly to outward thickened rim, upper surface of which slopes down toward interior. Similar to C-1937-1790 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 819) and C-1934-682 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 836). | |
| Decoration: | Interior: cockle shell in blue in center; in field short rows of yellow dots; 3 black lines below rim; curving black lines on rim. Exterior: graffito painted in black representing cross. Glaze has light greenish-blue tone, over interior and exterior of rim. | |
| Material: | Fine pale gray-green-buff clay. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Three joining frgts., complete profile, foot, ca. 1.2 body and rim or less. RIP. | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 2/3 of 13th c., according to Corinth 20, p. 430 | |
| Findspot Description: | North Market 1929? (Marked "Da Waele, 1929") | |
| Bibliography: | Williams and Bookidis 2003, Corinth 20, p. 424 note 5, p. 430 fig. 25.4; Hesperia 1937, 131, fig. 2; Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 833; Hesperia 1995, p. 22, note 22; 2013-2015 Exhibit "Byzantium: The New Rome", National Gallery, Washington, Getty, Rome | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
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