Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1935 345 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED CUP | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1935 | |
Object Number: | 345 | |
Description: | Cup with shallow convex body, very high vertical rim inset, vertical strap handle from lip to upper body with free lower end. Similar to C-1937-770 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 48). | |
Decoration: | Brown glaze over all. Shallow grooves on exterior upper body. | |
Material: | Coarse light red clay fired gray, with few small to large subrounded spherical and tabular white and gray inclusions, and frequent small angular platy and rounded spherical voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 6/8 (light red) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Three joining frgts., preserving small part of body and rim, and one handle. | |
Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
Chronology: | based on comparanda | |
Area: | St. John's | |
Context: | NB150 P136 | |
Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 49 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: St. John's Image: digital 2014 1316 Notebook Page: NB 150, spread 72 (pp. 135 - 136) |