Corinth Object: C 1936 909
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 909
Title:   MEASLES WARE BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   909
Description:   Bowl with vertical ring foot, rounded resting surface, flat undersurface. Deep body rising at 60 degrees with slight convex curve to max. diam. at tapered lip.
Decoration:   White slip on interior. Cross made of floral spikes with tips touching lip, radiating from central circles with dot, outer ring of dots; in angles concentric circles with rings of dots. Row of dots on lip. Clear to pale yellow glaze on interior.
Material:   Coarse light red clay, fired buff at surface, with frequent fine red, fewer white, inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/4 to 10YR 7/4
Condition:   Complete profile. Three joining frgts., half foot, 1/4 body to lip.
Manufacture:   C81
Dimensions Actual:   H00.078 D00.079 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.19 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   12th c.
Area:   St. John's
Context:   NB150 P233
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: St. John's
Basket: NB150 P233
Notebook Page: NB 169, spread 22 (pp. 233 - 234)