Corinth Object: C 1937 41
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 41
Title:   IMPRESSED WHITE WARE CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   41
Description:   Cup with vertical ring foot, narrow round resting surface, convex undersurface. Flaring body with slightly rounded profile, rising at 30 degrees to H00.038 and sharp offset for rim; start of vertical rim. Two vertical strap handles attached to bae of body.
Decoration:   Impressed medallion on floor: rosette ?, surrounded by band of bars. Light yellow glaze over all but underside of foot.
Material:   Fine hard-fired pale pink clay fired to white at core, with rare tiny to fine red inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5YR 8/3
Condition:   Fragment. Seven joining frgts., complete foot, half body, start of rim, lower half of one handle, lower stump of 2nd. Surface and breaks blackened.
Manufacture:   C68
Dimensions Actual:   D00.084 (foot) D00.145 (body)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.050
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   78 Middle to Late Byzantine
Area:   Forum northeast
Context:   NB165 P113
Provenance:   Constantinople
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum northeast
Basket: NB165 P113
Notebook Page: NB 165, spread 66 (pp. 112 - 113)