Corinth Object: C 1936 1160
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 1160
Title:   GREEN-GLAZED MEASLES WARE BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   1160
Description:   Small bowl with low fine vertical ring foot with chamfered edge, narrow resting surface, recessed flat undersurface. Deep body flaring at ca. 50 degrees with slight convex curve to max. diam. at tapered lip.
Decoration:   White slip on interior. On interior, incised cross extending from lip to lip, arms filled with black dots with floral terminations, concentric circles with dots in angles. Thin green glaze on interior and upper fourth of exterior.
Material:   Moderately fine clay fired buff at surface, pink at core, with scattered coarse white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   10YR 7.5/3
Condition:   Complete profile. Two joining frgts., complete profile and foot, nearly half body to lip.
Manufacture:   C81
Dimensions Actual:   H00.055 D00.061 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.13-00.135 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   12th c.
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB158 P53
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB158 P53
Notebook Page: NB 158, spread 35 (pp. 53 - 54)