Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1937 15 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO BOWL | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1937 | |
Object Number: | 15 | |
Description: | Bowl with widely flaring ring foot, rounded resting surface, flat undersurface, short stem; hemispherical body, tapered vertical lip. | |
Decoration: | White slip on interior and overlapping lip. Coarse sgraffito tondo with horse (?) to rt. Round eye with trailing outline, arc above; diagonal slashes for mane; exaggerated chest, short legs; missing hindquarter; double arcs in field to rt. Stippled ground. Border of groups of parallel arcs, as if string wrapped around a band. Clear to pale yelwlow glaze on interior. | |
Material: | Moderately fine tan clay with numerous tiny white, black inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Slightly redder than 7.5YR 7/4 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., complete profile, 9/10 foot, 1/8 body to lip. Interior badly abraded. | |
Manufacture: | C70 | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.094 D00.096 (foot) | |
Dimensions Restored: | D00.20 (max) | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | Late 12th-early 13th c. | |
Area: | Forum northeast | |
Context: | NB165 P70 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Forum northeast Basket: NB165 P70 Notebook Page: NB 165, spread 45 (pp. 70 - 71) |