Corinth Object: C 1937 1896
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1896
Title:   GREEN-BROWN PAINTED BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1896
Description:   Bowl with low vertical ring foot, flat resting surface, flat undersurface. Echinoid body with straight flaring profile, turning up to slightly inturned round lip.
Decoration:   White slip inside and over upper body. Green-brown painted decoration now largely obscured, with medallion on floor of spirals ?; possibly ring of circles on body, pendant arcs below lip. Green glaze over slip.
Material:   Moderately fine red clay with scattered coarse white inclusions, voids.
Munsell Color:   Slightly redder than 5YR 5/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Thirteen joining frgts., complete profile; 3/4 foot, complete floor, over half lower body, ca. 1/8 lip; most of brown paint worn away; surface peeled.
Manufacture:   C84
Dimensions Actual:   H00.076 D00.075 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.22 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine. Coins to Manuel I
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB173 P162
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB173 P162
Notebook Page: NB 173, spread 90 (pp. 162 - 163)