Corinth Object: C 1937 1872
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1872
Title:   GREEN AND BROWN PAINTED III BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1872
Description:   Bowl with low ring foot, hemispherical body, outwardly curving to everted rim with rounded lip.
Decoration:   White slip on all vessel, thicker on inner surface to over rim on exterior. Decoration, as Morgan (Corinth XI, cat. n. 500): "concentric circles in centre; motive repeated on sides, linked by arching green bar below which a vertical row of brown dots, narrow brown stripe on lip". Colourless overglaze on inner surface.
Material:   Fine, red fabric with rare sub-rounded, spherical, white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   2.5 YR 5/6 (red)
Condition:   Complete profile. Two joining frgts preserve one-third of base, one-fifth of body and rim.
Manufacture:   Wheel-made
Dimensions Actual:   H: 0.069
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. rim: 0.018
Weight Description:   0.099
Weight:   0.099
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Last quarter 12th century (Sanders 2003)
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB174 P25
Bibliography:   Morgan (1942) Corinth XI, cat. n. 500.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Image: digital 2014 1619
Basket: NB174 P25
Notebook Page: NB 174, spread 18 (pp. 25 - 26)