Corinth Object: C 1937 3009
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 3009
Title:   YELLOW-GLAZED SGRAFFITO BOWL, NORTH GREECE ?
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   3009
Description:   Bowl with flaring ring foot, rounded resting surface, interior of foot curving into flat undersurface.Body straight flaring at 45 degrees, to H00.074, sharply inturned rim or flat lip with moulding on interior (?). Tripod kiln support scars on floor.
Decoration:   White slip on interior. Coarse sgraffito spiral on floor; 2 broadly spaced rings on mid body, above which broad band of pseudo-Kufic motif, flanked by groups of finely incised lines; one such group preserved. Dark yellow glaze on interior and overlapping rim, upper body; drips of slip on exterior.
Material:   Relatively fine, well-compacted, hard-fired light red to brown clay with scattered white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Near 2.5YR 6/7
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., complete profile to start of rim, complete foot, floor, 1/8 body.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   D00.083 (foot)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.075
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   Context 13-14th c. ?
Area:   South Stoa west
Context:   NB170 P44
Provenance:   North Greece ?
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Stoa west
Basket: NB170 P44
Notebook Page: NB 170, spread 26 (pp. 43 - 44)