Corinth Object: CP 1466
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 1466
Title:   BYZANTINE SLIP-PAINTED BOWL
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   1466
Description:   Deep bowl with steep, convex profile, narrowhorizontal outturned rim, making slight lip on interior. Similar to C-1937-117.
Decoration:   White slip decoration on interior: unintelligible dots on floor, circumference line, narrow zone with more squiggles, then broad band below rim, framed by 2 circumference lines, filled with broad X, upper and lower angles filled with solid triangles, to left and right solid diamonds outlined with dots. Poorly executed guilloche below rim. On rim dotted zigzag. Olive-green glaze over all, going to yellow brown on exterior.
Material:   Moderately fine brown clay with few tiny white inclusions and rare red inclusions, few angular sub-rounded voids.
Munsell Color:   Yellower than 2.5YR 5/6 (red)
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., preserving most of body profile to rim.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.082
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. 0.26 (rim)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   ?
Area:   N/A
Context:   N/A
Findspot Description:   Early Excavations, provenance unknown.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: N/A
Image: bw 3146
Image: digital 2014 1484
Basket: N/A