Corinth Object: LOT 1976 245:03
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   LOT 1976 245:03
Title:   BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   LOT
Year:   1976
Object Number:   245
Description:   Bowl with flaring body curving up to carination. Straight, flaring rim with tapered lip.
Decoration:   Sgraffito, as Corinth XI, cat. no. 1250, fig. 107. White slip inside to carination outside. Sgraffito double circles circle frame upper edge of a kufesque motif band infilled with imbricated incision. Shallow round ridge on inner side of rim. Milky glaze inside to over rim outside where it has dribbled down.
Material:   Clay Temper A3
Munsell Color:   Core 5 YR 6/6 (reddish yellow), edges 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserves one-sixth of upper body and rim, missing lower body and foot.
Manufacture:   C 70 WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.035, W. 0.056
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. 0.13
Weight Description:   0.021
Weight:   0.021
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Ca. 1120/1130 - ca. 1160 (Sanders 2003, p. 392).
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece