| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1947 793 | |
| Title: | MOLDED RELIEF BOWL | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1947 | |
| Object Number: | 793 | |
| Description: | Pottery Typ: 26 Relief Ware Moulded relief bowl of shallow hemispherical form with thin walls, a flat bottom and a straight offset wheelmade rim contracting to a vertical lip. | |
| Decoration: | Medallion: rosette within circle. Corolla zone marked off by line and covered with alternating series of long pointed petals with spine and palm leaves with tips overturned. Body zone, framed between lines is decorated with running vine and grape scroll. Above, smaller zone of egg and dart pattern above which is rim zone stamped with interlocking meander pattern. Glaze fired brick red on body and metallic gray-black from rim zone to lip. Interior mostly red with some spots of black. Possibly of Pergamene origin. | |
| Material: | Very fine brown-pink clay with micaeous particles. | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 6/6 Light Red | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Missing two small rim frgts., and several body sherds. Joined from many fragments. | |
| Manufacture: | Mould/Wheelmade | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.072, D 0.130, Th 0.003. | |
| Period: | 2nd c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | to 146 BC | |
| Area: | Southeast Building | |
| Context: | NB191 P160 | |
| Provenance: | Pergamon ? | |
| Findspot Description: | Southeast Building Grid 32:U Well at N:20, Well 1947-3, NB 191 P160, September 16, 1947. | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia Vol 63:1944, no. 12, pp. 67-68, fig. 2, pl 15 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Southeast Building Images (5) Basket: NB191 P160 |
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