Corinth Object: CP 938
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 938
Title:   BYZANTINE INCISED-SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   938
Description:   Plate with flaring ring foot, rounded to flat resting surface, rounded undersurface. Shallow echinoid body turning up to vertical round lip. Turning marks on exterior.
Decoration:   White slip over all with incised decoration on interior: warrior directed rt., wearing tall pointed and cross-hatched cap, straight hair, pointed beard (?); oval-shaped body coming to point at base without legs; rt. hand down holding spear, lt. holding hatched oval shield; in field to rt. below spear rows of loops, row of chevrons below body. Clear glaze over interior and over lip on exterior.
Material:   Semi-fine red clay with frequent white inclusions, some voids.
Munsell Color:   5YR 5/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Four joining frgts., complete profile; all foot, ca. 1/7 body and rim. Restored in plaster.
Manufacture:   C70 WM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.083 D00.109 (foot0
Dimensions Restored:   D00.27 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   12th c. by style
Area:   Early Excavations
Context:   Early Excavations, Exact provenance unknown; marked in ink on bottom:
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N1595
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Early Excavations
Image: bw 3136
Basket: Early Excavations, Exact provenance unknown; marked in ink on bottom: