| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 1731 | |
| Title: | SGRAFFITO BOWL | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 1731 | |
| Description: | Bowl with low vertical ring foot, flat resting and undersurface. Body rising at 30-40 degrees with slight convex curve. | |
| Decoration: | White slip over all, thinly applied to exterior. On interior, sgraffito tondo of bird, to rt., with circle with hook for eye, hooked beak, 2 lines at top of neck, scales on neck, breast, closely incised folded wing and tail feathers. In field, double chevrons. Framing band of scribbled zigzag. Pale yellow glaze on interior. | |
| Material: | Moderately fine light red clay with scattered red inclusions, coarse voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | Between 5YR 5/6 and 2.5YR 5/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining frgts., complete foot, 3/4 floor, lower body. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.115 (foot) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.050 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 2nd half 12th c. | |
| Area: | Forum south central | |
| Context: | NB174 P23 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N1211 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum south central Basket: NB174 P23 Notebook Page: NB 174, spread 17 (pp. 23 - 24) |
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