Corinth Object: C 1937 1822
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1822
Title:   INCISED WARE SMALL BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1822
Description:   Small bowl with flaring ring foot, flat resting surface, nippled undersurface. Hemispherical body ending in oblique tapered lip.
Decoration:   Light slip on interior and over lip. Interior densely incised: central medallion with X on imbricate ground, incised circumference ring; body with cross-hatched triangles, extending from medallion to just below lip, and separated by row of dots; triangles alternate with point up or down. Clear glace in and over lip.
Material:   Moderately coarse light red clay with frequent fine red, fewer white, inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Three joining frgts, complete profile. Whole foot except for chip; ca. 1/4 body to lip. Chip in lip.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   H00.050 D00.058 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.14-00.145 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   12th c. or early 13th, coins to Manuel I (1143-80)
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB174 P76
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB174 P76
Notebook Page: NB 174, spread 43 (pp. 75 - 76)