Corinth Object: C 1933 759
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1933 759
Title:   PERSIAN FRIT BOWL WITH INCISED DECORATION
Category Code:   C
Year:   1933
Object Number:   759
Description:   Bowl with tall ring foot, flaring at flat resting surface, flat undersurface. Wide-flaring body, turning up at break.
Decoration:   Incised on interior: central medallion with 2 framing circles, 4 floral motifs: 2 "half-palmettes" in circle, 1 of prob. 2 split palmettes over scrolls, in heart; all surrounded by spiralling lines. 2 grooves at juncture with foot and ring of pricks. Irridescent white glaze over all, except inside of foot, resting surface.
Material:   Hard white frit.
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., half foot, lower body; partlyblackened.
Manufacture:   C75
Dimensions Actual:   D00.070 (foot)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.034
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Context Byz. to Turkish
Area:   Forum southwest South Stoa
Context:   NB133 P97
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southwest South Stoa
Image: digital 2013 0300
Image: digital 2013 0301
Basket: NB133 P97
Notebook Page: NB 133, spread 50 (p. 79)
Notebook Page: NB 133, spread 64 (pp. 97 - 98)