Corinth Object: C 1934 1516
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 1516
Title:   INCISED SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   1516
Description:   Bowl with false-ring foot, concave undersurface. Convex, flaring body.
Decoration:   White slip on inner surface. Free-style incised-sgraffito decoration accoding to Morgan's classification. Decoration as described by Morgan: "design of four radiating diamonds, the area between each pair incised away". Yellow glaze on inner surface.
Material:   Hard, yellow fabric with few (0.25-0.50 mm) rounded-spherical dark-red inclusions; rare (0.25-1.50mm) spherical-angular white-opaque inclusions; rare (0.50-1.50 mm) tabular-sub-rounded, black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5 YR7/4 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserves two-thirds of base, one-tenth of lower body, missing upper body and rim.
Manufacture:   Wheel-made
Dimensions Preserved:   0.024
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. foot 0.068
Weight Description:   0.051
Weight:   0.051
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late 12th - 1st half 13th century
Area:   Forum
Context:   NB142 P103
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Morgan 1942, p. 324, no. 1591
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum
Image: digital 2014 1975
Notebook Page: NB 142, spread 56 (pp. 102 - 103)