Corinth Object: C 1936 460
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 460
Title:   PAINTED SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   460
Description:   Bowl with flaring ring foot, rounded resting surface, flat undersurface. Straight flaring body rising at ca. 45 degrees to oblique tapered lip. Lower half of exterior trimmed but not smoothed.
Decoration:   White slip on interior and overlapping lip, drip on exterior body. Incised on interior: central medllaion with modified split-palmette with rounded tips on scribbled ground, double ring; on lower body, incised band of short vertical strokes; on upper body, rinceau between double lines. Green splotches on floor, row between two incised borders, row on lip. Clear glaze over interior, to upper body on exterior.
Material:   Moderately fine reddish-tan clay with scattered coarse gray, white inclusions, some sparkling, voids.
Munsell Color:   Near 5YR 6/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Five joining frgts., complete profile; nearly all foot, ca. half lower body circumference, 1/4 rim. Partly RIP.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   H00.081 D00.085 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.21 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Area:   South Stoa middle
Context:   NB151 P120
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N1636
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: South Stoa middle
Image: bw 4547
Basket: NB151 P120