Corinth Object: C 1937 1097
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1097
Title:   DARK-ON-LIGHT SLIP-PAINTED PITCHER
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1097
Related Objects:   C 1936 1016A-C ?
Description:   Pitcher (?) with convex body. (C-1936-1016 publ. as lid).
Decoration:   White slip on exterior, brown spiraliform pattern broken by double lines, poss. circumference line below. Similar to C-1936-1016 (probably from same vessel) (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 636). Categorized as "imitation lustre ware" on original inventory book.
Material:   Moderately fine light gray clay, fired pink at outer surface, with small rounded and subrounded spherical red and gray inclusions, few voids.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 7/2 (light grey)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small portion of body.
Manufacture:   C79
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Based on comparanda
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB163 P138
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Image: digital 2014 1247
Basket: NB163 P138
Notebook Page: NB 163, spread 78 (pp. 138 - 139)