| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 1806a | |
| Title: | POLYCHROME WHITE WARE CUP | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 1806 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | C-1937-1806B | |
| Description: | Cup with shallow straight flaring body, tall inset vertical rim with convex profile, flaring lip. Mouth not circular but faintly quatrefoil. | |
| Decoration: | Exterior: transparent yellow glaze on body with black band at edge; rim: thick white curvilinear design, alternating with black glaze, of half circles on side, enclosing simplified half-palmette; white stripe at bottom and top. Interior: on floor, edge of black frame or medallion; yellow glaze on rest, with broad brown-black and white stripes below and on lip. | |
| Material: | Fine white clay with fine sand-like inclusions. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining frgts., body from just above foot to lip, ca. 1/4 circumference. | |
| Manufacture: | C82 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.064 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.08-00.09 (lip) | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 78 Middle to late Byzantine | |
| Area: | St. John's | |
| Context: | NB169 P353 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N0386 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: St. John's Image: digital 2014 1929 Image: digital 2014 1930 Basket: NB169 P353 |
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