| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 1405 | |
| Title: | SGRAFFITO BOWL | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 1405 | |
| Description: | Small bowl with hemispherical body curving out to oblique round lip. | |
| Decoration: | White slip over all. Sgraffito decoration on interior: large interlocking circles cover interior; have edge of one circle on floor, parts of three on body. In center of circles modified Assyrian "Tree of Life" and boxed diamonds; interlocking ovals made into fish with mouth up, reserved head, scaley body, chevron tail. Pale yellow glaze in, marbled brown glaze out. | |
| Material: | Moderately fine tan clay with frequent fine to coarser white, gray-black inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Near 10YR 6/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., complete profile from just above foot to lip. Ca. 1/5 body, 1/12 lip. Glaze, slip partly peeled away on exterior. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.058 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine, coins to Manuel I | |
| Area: | Forum south central | |
| Context: | NB173 P86 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N1053 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum south central Basket: NB173 P86 Notebook Page: NB 173, spread 52 (pp. 86 - 87) |
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