Corinth Object: CP 1063
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 1063
Title:   MEASLES WARE BOWL
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   1063
Description:   Bowl with straight, flaring lower body up to carination, vertical, straight upper body, outwardly thickened rim with flat lip.
Decoration:   White slip on inner surface to over rim on exterior. On lower body: sgraffito floral spikes, on upper body sgraffito guilloche band. All motives decorated with red slip painted dots. Vertical red slip painted strokes over lip. Colourless overglaze on inner surface to over lip.
Material:   Fine, light reddish brown fabric with few angular, spherical white inclusions and rare angular, spherical red inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5 YR 6/4 (light reddish brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserves one-tenth of body and one-fourth of rim, missing base.
Manufacture:   Wheel-made
Dimensions Preserved:   H.: 0.059
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. rim: 0.27
Weight Description:   0.166
Weight:   0.166
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   12th century (Sanders 2003)
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2014 1634