| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 1640 | |
| Title: | ROMAN RELIEF WARE BOWL | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 1640 | |
| Old Number: | formerly MF 192 | |
| Related Objects: | CP 1649 | |
| Description: | Bowl with low base ring, horizontal floor, tall vertical body with moulded rim. | |
| Decoration: | Thin orange brown glaze, slightly metallic. Base moulding has raised dots. A series of scenes around the main register: figure carrying a pitcher (?) in right hand and a plate (?) in left; to right, a pillar with round object on top; figure (satyr?) wearing chitoniskos pulls bough of tree or vine to pick fruit with table beside him; draped, bearded figured stands before an altar with a macrophallic statue (Priapus?); two women in long skirts suspend long narrow objects (one kneeling, the other stooping), with trees behind and a thyrsus in one of them; draped woman with thyrsus over left shoulder walks to the left with a satyr striding in the opposite direction with one arm raised. After Spitzer's Type III, Fig. 16 g, e, f, n, c, m, l. | |
| Material: | fine clay | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two non-joining fragments (CP 1649 is the other), assembled in plaster. Preserves complete profile, one-third of bowl. | |
| Manufacture: | C26 MW | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H: 0.081, D: 0.129 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam.: 0.144 (rim) | |
| Area: | Julian Basilica | |
| Context: | NB81 P280 | |
| Bibliography: | Spitzer, Hesperia 1942, p. 189, no. III.1 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Spitzer, Hesperia 11:2, 1942 Monument: Julian Basilica Basket: NB81 P280 Notebook Page: NB 81, spread 50 (pp. 280 - 281) |
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