Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1934 1322 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE DARK-ON-LIGHT SLIP-PAINTED WARE BOWL | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1934 | |
Object Number: | 1322 | |
Description: | Bowl with heavy vertical ring foot, pierced for suspension, flat resting and undersurface, wide flaring body. Similar to C-1933-875 (Corinth 11). | |
Decoration: | White slip on interior, over which formalized bird in brown slip, to left, drawn in outlined; spiral spray in field. Yellow glaze all over. | |
Material: | Moderately fine light red-brown clay with frequent fine red, white, and black inclusions and rare fine angular voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/5 (light red-brown) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving 1/2 foot, floor. Medallion bird preserved from head to start of wing. | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | at least Alexius I (1081-1118), based on context | |
Area: | Agora southwest | |
Context: | NB140 P59 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Agora southwest Image: digital 2014 1418 Notebook Page: NB 140, spread 35 (pp. 58 - 59) |