Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1938 461 | |
Title: | UNFINISHED MEASLES WARE BOWL | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1938 | |
Object Number: | 461 | |
Description: | Bowl with heavy slightly flaring ring foot, broad flat resting surface, flat undersurface; foot pierced with two holes for suspension placed 0.036 m. apart. Deep convex body. | |
Decoration: | White slip on interior. Incised are a pair (?) of heraldic birds; of lt. bird, headless body, part of wing, tail, tops of legs, striding rt.; of rt. one, belly. Bellies have rows of large scalesalternating with plain stripes, continuing onto wings; brown dots on both, and on legs. Missing final glaze. | |
Material: | Moderately fine clay salmon to buff core with moderate amount of red inclusions, fewer tiny white, voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Four joining frgts., all of foot except for a wedge, most of body profile but small part of whole. Glaze missing. | |
Manufacture: | C81 | |
Dimensions Actual: | D00.096 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.067 | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | 12th c. | |
Area: | St. John's | |
Context: | NB181 P512 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: St. John's Basket: NB181 P512 Notebook Page: NB 181, spread 60 (pp. 511 - 512) |