Corinth Object: C 1934 1526
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 1526
Title:   INCISED SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   1526
Description:   Bowl with false ring foot, concave undersuface, curving up to convex, flaring lower body.
Decoration:   White slip on all vessel, thicker on inner surface. Incised-sgraffito free-style decoration according to Morgan's classification. Decoration as described by Morgan: "in centre, long-necked bird (forepart preserved) with incised body stands to left, turns head to right; in field, chevrons and double spirals". Greenish yellow glaze on inner surface.
Material:   Fine, hard fabric, light-red in colour, with few (0.25-0.5 mm) white-opaque, angular -spherical inclusions and rare (0.25-0.50 mm) rounded-spherical, black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5 YR 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserves half base, missing body and rim.
Manufacture:   Wheel-made
Dimensions Actual:   H.p: 0.022
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. foot: 0.09
Weight Description:   0.029
Weight:   0.029
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   13th century
Area:   Forum
Context:   NB142 P106
Provenance:   Imported
Bibliography:   Morgan 1942, p. 323, no. 1580.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum
Image: digital 2014 1976
Basket: NB142 P106
Notebook Page: NB 142, spread 58 (pp. 106 - 107)