| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1934 827 | |
| Title: | DARK-ON-LIGHT SLIP-PAINTED BOWL | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1934 | |
| Object Number: | 827 | |
| Description: | Bowl with small ring foot, deep, nearly hemispherical body, widening to oblique fine lip. Foot pierced with one hole. | |
| Decoration: | Interior painted in dark brown slip: central medallion with formalized bird facing rt., with spray in beak. Head, neck reserved with stripes, solid body. 5 parallel lines upright in field above body. 2 circumference lines; below lip, wide band of spiral and Kufic pattern between double framing lines. Glaze over all, pale green on interior, pale yellow on exterior. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish clay. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Five-six joining frgts., complete profile. Missing ca. 1/3 of bowl from body to lip, center of floor. RIP. | |
| Manufacture: | C79 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.087 D00.07 (foot) D00.223 (lip) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB140 P64 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI P232 N592; Encyclopedia Universalis P144 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum southwest Basket: NB140 P64 Notebook Page: NB 140, spread 38 (pp. 64 - 65) |
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