Corinth Object: C 1937 1456
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1456
Title:   GREEN-BROWN PAINTED BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1456
Description:   Bowl with vertical ring foot, flat resting surface, flat undersurface. Deep body rising unevenly at ca. 50 degrees to H00.060, vertical rim H00.038 with flat outturned rim.
Decoration:   White slip on interior and overlapping rim. Painted on interior: one arm of long cross in green flanked by black, extending from rim down to floor, with green circles in angles of crossing; on uppr body row of concentric circles painted black, green, black with green dot; row of smaller green circles outlined in black on interior of rim; green and black dots on rim. Clear glaze on interior.
Material:   Fine buff to pinkish buff clay with numerous tiny white, red inclusions, scattered coarse white ones.
Munsell Color:   Surface: between 10YR 7/4 and 7.5YR 7/4 ; core:
Condition:   Complete profile. Two joining frgts., complete profile; ca. 1/3 foot, 1/4 body, 1/8 rim.
Manufacture:   C84
Dimensions Actual:   H00.095
Dimensions Restored:   D00.09-00.10 (foot) D00.28 (rim)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   12th c.
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB173 P79
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0489
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB173 P79
Notebook Page: NB 173, spread 48 (pp. 78 - 79)