Corinth Object: C 1960 54a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1960 54a
Title:   BYZANTINE BROWN PAINTED SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1960
Object Number:   54
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C-1960-054B C-1960-054C
Description:   Unevenly flaring ring foot; flat resting surface; flat undersurface; body straight flaring at 45 degrees; nearly vertical rim H00.031, squared lip.
Decoration:   White paint all over; tondo: sgraffito medallion with spiraliform pattern of 4 spirals; brown painted spiral band; sgraffito band with detached spirals; on interior of rim, pendant from lip brown painted guilloche overlapping lip. Glazed inside and overlapping exterior of rim.
Material:   Semifine light red-brown clay with 1-3% lime inclusions, few voids.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Complete profile, 10 joining frgts., all of foot, ca. 50 % of rim and body; B and C incorporated into plaster.
Manufacture:   C 70 WM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.085 D00.122 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.279 (rim)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   12th cent. A.C.
Area:   West Shops
Context:   NB217 B1 P133
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: West Shops
Basket: NB217 B1 P133
Notebook Page: NB 217, spread 72 (pp. 132 - 133)