Corinth Object: C 1937 1758
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1758
Title:   BYZANTINE GLOSSY WARE BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1758
Description:   Bowl with flaring ring foot, fine round resting surface, nippled undersurface. Bowl flares nearly horizontally, then turns sharply up at ca. 50 degrees with straight profile.
Decoration:   Creamy slip on interior, irregularly applied to floor, and upper part of body exterior, drips on lower body, foot and undersurface. On interior floor raised bubble (?) resembling impressed decoration. Glossy yellow glaze on interior, and upper part of exterior.
Material:   Hard-fired fine red clay, fired to purplish brown over much of exterior.
Munsell Color:   Near 5YR 5/6 to near 2.5YR 5/4
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., complete foot, part of floor, small part of body.
Manufacture:   C83
Dimensions Actual:   D00.054 (foot)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.041
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   13th c. ?
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB174 P111
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB174 P111