Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1938 29 | |
Title: | GREEN- AND BROWN-PAINTED BOWL | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1938 | |
Object Number: | 29 | |
Description: | Low vertical ring foot, flat inside, pierced with suspension hole and offset by a swallow groove outside below body. Flaring outwardly convex lower body to carination. Straight, vertical, slightly flaring upper body to thickened rim. Triangular rim outwardly sloping and overhanging inside and outside. | |
Decoration: | Green and brown painted. Pink (paler than Munsell 5 YR 8/3) slip inside to rim with occasional spots outside. Random crescents of dark green and dark orange glaze on lower wall inside with vertical, alternating green and orange stripes on upper wall. Pale yellow over-glaze inside to over rim out. Added green and orange glaze has streaked laterally from stacking pot on its side during firing. | |
Material: | Fine redish yellow (Munsell 5YR 6/6) with white inclusions. Smooth conchoidal, slightly hackly break. | |
Munsell Color: | 5 YR 7/6 reddish yellow | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Ten sherds preserve about 3/4 of vessel including base and 2/3 of body and rim. | |
Manufacture: | C 84 | |
Weight Description: | 0.892 Kg | |
Weight: | 0.892 | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | mid 12th century (Guy Sanders) | |
Area: | South Stoa west | |
Context: | South Stoa west | |
Bibliography: | Corinth XI 0402 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: South Stoa west Basket: South Stoa west Notebook Page: NB 178, spread 13 (pp. 10 - 11) |