| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 15 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO BOWL | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 15 | |
| Description: | Bowl with widely flaring ring foot, rounded resting surface, flat undersurface, short stem; hemispherical body, tapered vertical lip. | |
| Decoration: | White slip on interior and overlapping lip. Coarse sgraffito tondo with horse (?) to rt. Round eye with trailing outline, arc above; diagonal slashes for mane; exaggerated chest, short legs; missing hindquarter; double arcs in field to rt. Stippled ground. Border of groups of parallel arcs, as if string wrapped around a band. Clear to pale yelwlow glaze on interior. | |
| Material: | Moderately fine tan clay with numerous tiny white, black inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slightly redder than 7.5YR 7/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., complete profile, 9/10 foot, 1/8 body to lip. Interior badly abraded. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.094 D00.096 (foot) | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.20 (max) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 12th-early 13th c. | |
| Area: | Forum northeast | |
| Context: | NB165 P70 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum northeast Basket: NB165 P70 Notebook Page: NB 165, spread 45 (pp. 70 - 71) |
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