Corinth Object: CP 1642
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 1642
Title:   ROMAN RELIEF WARE BOWL
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   1642
Old Number:   formerly MF 195B
Related Objects:   H: 0.044
Description:   Base with moulding angles slightly to false ring foot. Vertical body, with squared rim.
Decoration:   Dull reddish-brown glaze. Lower moulding has two horizontal grooves. On left of body, figure standing before round altar holding a cornucopia (?); satyr carrying off a nymph or maenad with thyrsos; figure (satyr?) wearing short kilt pulling the bough of a tree or vine, behind, a table with objects atop (fruit?). All figures had verical grooves below them, forming a ground line of sorts.
Material:   fine clay with few small inclusions
Munsell Color:   7.5 YR 6/4 (light brown)
Condition:   Fragment. One fragment preserves rim (nearly 1/2 of circumference), body, and base. Glaze is slightly worn, especially at upper and lower mouldings.
Manufacture:   C26 MW
Dimensions Restored:   Diam.: 0.070 (rim)
Area:   Julian Basilica
Context:   NB81 P285
Bibliography:   Spitzer, Hesperia 1942, p. 189, no. III.3
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Spitzer, Hesperia 11:2, 1942
Monument: Julian Basilica
Basket: NB81 P285
Notebook Page: NB 81, spread 52 (pp. 284 - 285)