Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1933 339 | |
Title: | ROMAN RELIEF WARE BOWL WITH SIGNATURE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1933 | |
Object Number: | 339 | |
Description: | Bowl has a base that is angled slightly to a foot (poorly preserved). Body is verticl with moulding above the base. Rim is squared. Interior curves slightly outward before gradually curving to the floor. | |
Decoration: | Black glaze. Two grooves make up the moulding above the base, forming a ground line for the figures. Three scenes, with tree to the right. On left, shepherd wearing a sheep-skin garment extends hand to the left. Center, a nude woman (?) holds a basin over the head of a nude youth. On right, two figures, a satyr carrying off a nymph or maenad. After Spitzer's Type III, Fig. 16 p, h, m. | |
Writing: | inscribed. Inscription on unfired clay on base above the ring, scratched into unfired clay: | |
Material: | sandy clay with few small white inclusions | |
Munsell Color: | 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of rim, body, base, and beginnings of foot. Three (perhaps four) letters of inscription preserved along base. Glaze is near completely worn. | |
Manufacture: | C26 MW | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.040 | |
Dimensions Restored: | Diam. of rim 0.070 | |
Area: | Agora Southeast | |
Context: | Agora Southeast, Exact provenance not recorded. | |
OB (no p.) | ||
Bibliography: | Spitzer, Hesperia 1942, p. 189, no. III.8 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Spitzer, Hesperia 11:2, 1942 Monument: Agora Southeast Basket: Agora Southeast, Exact provenance not recorded. OB (no p.) |