Corinth Object: CP 1638
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 1638
Title:   ROMAN RELIEF WARE BOWL
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   1638
Old Number:   formerly MF-189
Decoration:   Dull light orange glaze. Herakles, advancing to the right, holding club in right hand and bow in left hand, with lion skin draping over left arm, wearing quiver with exposed arrows. Trees at left, and leaf, branch, and large apple on right. After Spitzer's Fig. 6f.
Mythology:   Labors of Herakles, Apples of the Hesperides
Material:   Soft clay with few white and gray inclusions
Munsell Color:   5 YR 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. One fragment preserves rim and part of body to base moulding. Glaze is worn on exterior and interior.
Manufacture:   C26 MW
Dimensions Preserved:   H: 0.069
Dimensions Restored:   Diam.: 0.150 (rim)
Bibliography:   Spitzer, Hesperia 1942, p. 171, no. I.3
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Spitzer, Hesperia 11:2, 1942
Notebook Page: NB 80, spread 17 (p. 22)