| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1938 510 | |
| Title: | DARK-ON-LIGHT SLIP-PAINTED BOWL | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1938 | |
| Object Number: | 510 | |
| Description: | Bowl or plate (?) with low vertical ring foot, flat resting surface and undersurface. Shallow, wide flaring convex body.` | |
| Decoration: | White slip inside; medallion with schematic bird with long striped neck, solid body, upright outlined feathers; floral spray or animal (?) dangling from beak; border of 2 circumference lines, then broad band of spiral and kufic motif. Yellow-green glaze over all. Similar to C-1934-827 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 592). | |
| Material: | Moderately fine clay, fired largely light gray to buff at edges. with few rounded spherical and tabular white, red and gray inclusions. Common small and medium angular platy and rounded spherical voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving complete foot, lower half body. | |
| Manufacture: | C79 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.070 (foot) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.023 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Based on comparanda | |
| Area: | St. John's south | |
| Context: | NB181 B1 P559 | |
| Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 580 (publ. as C-37-510). | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: St. John's south Image: digital 2014 1287 Basket: NB181 B1 P559 Notebook Page: NB 181, spread 84 (pp. 559 - 560) |
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