Corinth Object: C 1937 1905
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1905
Title:   INCISED SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1905
Related Objects:   Former C-1937-1905A and C-1937-1905B joined.
Description:   Bowl with heavy vertical ring foot, flat resting surface, flat undersurface. Hemispherical body, tapered vertical lip.Hole D00.013 m. opened in floor; two pair of mend holes D00.005 in body.
Decoration:   Slip on interior and possibly thinly applied to exterior. On interior: large medallion on floor and lower half body with ring of 3 circles, each with double outline, filled with pair of arcs and imbricate ground; 4 circumference lines; on upper body below lip, broad band of linked lozenges, each filled with smaller hatched lozenge, 2 lines above. Splotches of green, clear to yellow glaze over interior, and over lip.
Material:   Moderately fine light red clay with numerous tiny voids, scattered red, white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5YR 5/6 to near 7.5YR 6/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Four joining frgts., complete profile; complete foot except for large chip; nearly half body to lip. Surfaces chipped. Hole opened in floor.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   H00.086 D00.080 (foot) D00.188 (lip)
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   first half 13th c., context end 12th + 2 Turkish coins
Area:   Forum north central
Context:   NB171 P139
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum north central
Basket: NB171 P139
Notebook Page: NB 171, spread 79 (pp. 138 - 139)