Corinth Object: C 1937 95A
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 95A
Title:   IMPRESSED WHITE WARE BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   95
Object Suffix:   A
Related Objects:   C-1937-095B
Description:   Bowl with high flaring ring foot, flat resting surface, convex undersurface. Body flaring at ca. 30 degrees with slight convex to concave profile, oblique inward thickened rim with flat channel offetting round lip and ridge surrounding body.
Decoration:   Large relief decoration of animals surrounding central medallion inside. Loops of red-slip on mid wall inside. Thin red wash on rim outside. Thick greenish ochre glaze inside to halfway down wall on outside stained and streaked dark orange by slip and iron-rich inclusions exposed at surface of the biscuit.
Material:   Medium hard clay with red, black and white inclusions. Smooth to slightly hackly conchoidal break.
Munsell Color:   Near 10YR 7.5/4
Condition:   Complete profile. Fifteen joining frgts., complete profile. 1/4 foot (scar of 1/2), over 1/4 body to rim.
Manufacture:   C68
Dimensions Actual:   H00.H00.106 D00.304 (rim)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.145 (foot)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late 11th century (Guy Sanders) context Turkish
Area:   Forum northeast
Context:   NB165 P33
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0094;
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum northeast
Basket: NB165 P33
Notebook Page: NB 165, spread 26 (pp. 32 - 33)