Corinth Object: C 1937 140A
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 140A
Title:   SMALL POLYCHROME WHITE WARE CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   140
Object Suffix:   A
Related Objects:   C-1937-0140B
Description:   Cup with torus ring foot, sharp resting surface, convex undersurface. Convex body to ca. H00.027, then turning up to vertical. Possible edge of vertical handle at upper break.
Decoration:   Interior: central medallion with 4 black radiating triangles on white ground within black band; yellow glaze above. Exterior: yellow glaze on exterior of foot, lower body; black band, then black circles (?) or triangles (?) on white ground.
Material:   White clay fired to pink at core, with numerous tiny red, black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5YR 7/4 (pink core)
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., complete foot, most of floor, part of lower body.
Manufacture:   C82
Dimensions Actual:   D00.045 (foot) D00.074 (body)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.037
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine ?
Area:   Forum northeast
Context:   NB165 P90
Provenance:   Constantinople
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0382
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum northeast
Basket: NB165 P90
Notebook Page: NB 165, spread 55 (pp. 89 - 90)