Corinth Object: C 1938 29
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)