Corinth Object: C 1937 885
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 885
Title:   LIGHT/DARK SLIP-PAINTED BOWL ("OYSTER WARE")
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   885
Description:   Bowl with shallow convex body, sharply articulated tall rim (H00.039), rising nearly vertically to round lip.
Decoration:   Entire interior painted with horizontal rows of large white dots, over which green glaze. On exterior glaze brown to olive-green below lip.
Material:   Moderately fine buff to pinkish-buff clay with dense amount of fine black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Ca. 7.5YR 7/4 at edges
Condition:   Fragment. Four joining frgts., ca. half circumference of upper body, small part of rim; glaze partly peeled.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.080 (true)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.26-00.28 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Area:   Forum northeast
Context:   NB168 P36
Provenance:   Corinth ?
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum northeast
Basket: NB168 P36
Notebook Page: NB 168, spread 30 (pp. 36 - 37)