Corinth Object: C 1936 885
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 885
Title:   LATE LIGHT/DARK SLIP-PAINTED BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   885
Description:   Bowl with ring foot trimmed to irregular, biconical profile, flat resting surface, flat undersurface with central nippled. Echinoid body curving up to vertical rounded lip.
Decoration:   Painted to light slip on interior: central dot, ring of scribbles on lower half of body; on upper half, pendant semi-circles hanging from lip, filled with spirals, dots, dots between, all carelessly done; splotches of green on upper body and lip. Clear glaze going olive on clay, over interior and overlapping lip.
Material:   Moderately fine clay fired tan at surface to tray toward interior, with scattered white inclusions, voids.
Munsell Color:   5YR 5.5/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Four joining frgts., complete except for ca. 1/4 upper body to lip.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Actual:   H00.105 D00.113 (foot) D00.228 (lip)
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   Frankish
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB160 P46
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0778
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB160 P46
Notebook Page: NB 160, spread 30 (pp. 46 - 47)