Corinth Object: C 1937 1938
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1938
Title:   LIGHT-ON-DARK SLIP-PAINTED BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1938
Description:   Bowl with vertical ring foot, flat resting and under surfaces, hemispherical body, low vertical rim, inward thickened for ledge surrounding mouth.
Decoration:   Interior, medallion with cormalized bird to lt., border band of pendent concentric half-circles; broad band of repeated diamonds and triangles between bands of simple guilloche; short strokes on rim. Light yellow glaze over all.
Material:   Reddish-tan clay with numerous tiny white inclusions, voids.
Munsell Color:   Slightly yellower than 2.5YR 4/6 (break)
Condition:   Complete profile. Six joining frgts., 1/4 vessel.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Actual:   H00.082
Dimensions Restored:   D00.085-00.09 (foot) D00.25 (rim)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB174 P139
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0710
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB174 P139
Notebook Page: NB 174, spread 75 (pp. 139 - 140)