Corinth Object: CP 1500
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 1500
Title:   GREEN AND BROWN PAINTED BOWL
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   1500
Description:   Bowl with convex body, tapered lip.
Decoration:   Green and Brown Painted III according to Morgan's classification. White slip onall vessel, thicker on inner surface to over lip on exterior; brown painted narrow lines to design palmetts framed by horizontal line below lip and decorated with irragularly painted, large green strokes; very thin colourless overglaze on inner surface to over lip on exterior.
Material:   Fine, medium-hard, fabric, red in colour with few (0.25-1.5mm) spherical-angular, dark brown inclusions; rare (0.25-0.5 mm) silver sparkling inclusions; rare (0.25-1.5mm) white, spherical-angular inclusions.
Munsell Color:   2.5 YR 5/8 (red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserve one-tenth of upper body, one-twenthieth of rim, missing foot and lower body.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. p. 0.046
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. Rim: 0.15
Weight Description:   0.029
Weight:   0.029
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   1160-1200 (Sanders 2003)
Provenance:   Imported
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2014 1663