Corinth Object: C 1938 523a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 523a
Title:   GREEN-BROWN PAINTED BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   523
Object Suffix:   a
Old Number:   C-1938-523B (lapsed)
Related Objects:   C-1938-523C
Description:   Bowl with low vertical ring foot, flattened resting surface, nippled undersurface. Echinoid body turning up to horizontal outturned rim W00.014.
Decoration:   White slip on interior and over rim. Painted on interior: green spiral, outlined in blurred brown, on floor; on body small green circles alternating with long splotches, all outlined in brown. Single brown line below rim. On rim, groups of short brown strokes alternating with smeared green stripes. Clear glaze inside, and dripping over extrior; smear of green glaze on mid-body of exterior.
Material:   Fine tan clay with scattered fine black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Near 10YR 7/4
Condition:   Complete profile. Three joining frgts. (with B), complete profile, half foot, 2/5 body to rim. RIP with C.
Manufacture:   C84
Dimensions Actual:   H00.075 D00.091 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.235 (rim)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   11th-12th c.
Area:   St. John's south
Context:   NB181 P584
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: St. John's south
Basket: NB181 P584