Corinth Object: C 1937 1762
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1762
Title:   DARK/LIGHT SLIP-PAINTED BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1762
Description:   Bowl with carelessly thrown, vertical ring foot, flattened resting surface, interior of foot curving continuously into flat undersurface. Foot pierced. Deep body, curving out and up at ca. 60 degrees to tapered lip.
Decoration:   Off-white slip applied over all. On interior, rows of solid brown circles surrounded by ring of dots: two rows surrounding missing center of loor. Groups of brown dots on lip. Pale yellow glaze on interior and overlapping lip.
Material:   Moderately fine buff clay with numerous fine black, white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Near 10YR 8/3
Condition:   Complete profile. Fifteen joining frgts., complete except for small part of floor, two frgts. of upper body to lip. Missing part of glaze on floor, lower body.
Manufacture:   C79
Dimensions Actual:   H00.061 D00.055 (foot) D00.150 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   11th c. ? Coins to Nikephoros III (1078-81)
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB173 P149
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0720
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum south central
Image: bw 4595
Basket: NB173 P149
Notebook Page: NB 173, spread 83 (pp. 148 - 149)