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: |