Corinth Object: C 1934 545
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 545
Title:   POLYCHROME WHITE WARE CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   545
Description:   Cup with torus ring foot, interior of which only slightly articulated from concave undersurface, squat ovoid body, tall vertical rim with convex bulge on lower 2/3, round lip. Two vertical strap handles attached below max. diam. Projection in center of interior floor.
Decoration:   Interior, black cross crosslet over cross saltire. Exterior, purple stripe on top of body. Rim, 2 blue-green bands with wavy black outline, yellow lip. Clear glaze over all.
Material:   Fine white clay with tiny black inclusions.
Condition:   Complete profile. Three joining frgts., complete profile, all foot, floor, ca. half body, 1/8 rim. Bases of two handles.
Manufacture:   C67
Dimensions Actual:   H00.070 D00.050 (foot) D00.106 (rim)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine Coins to Manuel I
Area:   Forum southeast
Context:   NB139 P127
    NB143 P127
Provenance:   Constantinople
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0348
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum southeast
Image: digital 2014 2591
Image: digital 2014 2592
Basket: NB139 P127
Basket: NB143 P127
Notebook Page: NB 139, spread 84 (pp. 126 - 127)