Corinth Object: KP 678
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 678
Title:   SHALLOW BLACK BOWL
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   678
Description:   Bowl with low ring foot with flat resting surface, slightly convex underside, straight flaring sides; rounded bevel leading to slightly incurved, tapered rim.
Decoration:   Black glazed over all.
Material:   Fine very pale brown clay with few rounded, fine inclusions and few rounded voids.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Complete profile. Complete except for one large chip from rim and one large chip from foot, glaze chipping.
Manufacture:   WM
Weight Description:   0.072
Weight:   0.072
Period:   4th c. B.C.
Chronology:   Last quarter 4th c. BC, according to G.R. Edwards, as cited in Corinth 15.3, p. 212
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   NB114 P45
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter, Terracotta Factory, Court, near Deposit 4 (note: Benson suggests Deposit 4, but the find location in the notebook (1930 plan, square 1P) contradicts this designation).
Bibliography:   Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1134
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Potters' Quarter
Image: bw 1965 081 05
Basket: NB114 P45
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 27 (pp. 44 - 45)