| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 1980 | |
| Title: | LARGE FLUTED PLAIN-GLAZED BYZANTINE CUP | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 1980 | |
| Description: | Large cup with ovoid lower body curving up to tall vertical upper body and tapered everted lip; upper body pinched into at least three semi-circular flutes, with pinches of clay at lip, at juncture of flutes. At least one round vertical handle, from lower body to shortly below lip, embellished with flat spur. | |
| Decoration: | Inner points of flutes incised to resemble rodents'faces. Light green glaze over all. | |
| Material: | Hard-fired tan to gray clay with occasional coarserwhite, black inclusions, also finer ones. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slightly pinker than 10YR 6/4 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Eight joining frgts., profile from lower body to lip, nearly 1/2 circumference, one handle. | |
| Manufacture: | C83 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.122 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine, coins to Manuel I | |
| Area: | Forum south central | |
| Context: | NB174 P126 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N0299 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum south central Basket: NB174 P126 Notebook Page: NB 174, spread 68 (pp. 125 - 126) |
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