Corinth Object: C 1937 1895a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1895a
Title:   MEASLES WARE BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1895
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C-1937-1895B
Description:   Deep bowl, with convex nearly hemispherical body, turning up to oblique vertical round tapered lip.
Decoration:   Interior: white slip, overlapping lip. Unintelligible pattern on floor. On body below lip, titled elongated ovals, each with single row of brown dots. Dots on lip. Pale yellow glaze over slip.
Material:   Moderately coarse clay fired tan to pink at edges with dense fine dark and few white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Roughly between 7.5YR 7/4 and 10YR 7/4
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper body to lip, and small part of circumference. Encrusted
Manufacture:   C81
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.061
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. 0.18 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB173 P162
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Image: digital 2014 1544
Basket: NB173 P162