Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1934 1526 | |
Title: | INCISED SGRAFFITO BOWL | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1934 | |
Object Number: | 1526 | |
Description: | Bowl with false ring foot, concave undersuface, curving up to convex, flaring lower body. | |
Decoration: | White slip on all vessel, thicker on inner surface. Incised-sgraffito free-style decoration according to Morgan's classification. Decoration as described by Morgan: "in centre, long-necked bird (forepart preserved) with incised body stands to left, turns head to right; in field, chevrons and double spirals". Greenish yellow glaze on inner surface. | |
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: | 5 YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt preserves half base, missing body and rim. | |
Manufacture: | Wheel-made | |
Dimensions Actual: | H.p: 0.022 | |
Dimensions Restored: | Diam. foot: 0.09 | |
Weight Description: | 0.029 | |
Weight: | 0.029 | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | 13th century | |
Area: | Forum | |
Context: | NB142 P106 | |
Provenance: | Imported | |
Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, p. 323, no. 1580. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Forum Image: digital 2014 1976 Basket: NB142 P106 Notebook Page: NB 142, spread 58 (pp. 106 - 107) |