Corinth Object: C 1934 1439
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 1439
Title:   INCISED SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   1439
Description:   Bowl with ring foot, with flared lower edge. Flat undersuface, curving up to flaring, convex body.
Decoration:   White slip on all vessel. Incised-sgraffito, free-style decoration according to Morgan's decoration. Decoration as described by Morgan: "in centre, small circle from which radiate eight incised lines, with incised floral spiral device between each pair of lines" . Greenish yellow glaze on interior, green on exterior.
Material:   Fine, hard fabric, light-red in colour, with few (0.25-0.5 mm) white-opaque, angular -spherical inclusions and rare (0.25-0.50 mm) rounded-spherical, black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   2.5 YR 6/6 (light red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserves half base, one-tenth of body, missing rim. Chipped foot.
Manufacture:   Wheel-made
Dimensions Preserved:   H. p.: 0.021
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. foot: 0.072
Weight Description:   0.089
Weight:   0.089
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late 12th - early 13th century
Area:   Agora southwest
Context:   NB144 P59
Provenance:   Imported
Bibliography:   Morgan 1942, p. 326, no. 1617.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora southwest
Image: digital 2014 1957
Notebook Page: NB 144, spread 35 (pp. 59 - 60)