Corinth Object: C 1937 660
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 660
Title:   BYZANTINE IMPRESSED WHITE WARE CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   660
Description:   Cup with high flaring ring foot, rounded resting surface, flat undersurface. Body straight flaring at 30 degrees to ca. H00.035, then turns up to convex upper body, narrow slightly everted rim H00.007 with round lip. Two vertical handles, oval in section, attached to base of body and base of rim.
Decoration:   Broad red horizontal stripe on upper body through which cut 6 vertical strokes. According to Morgan indistinct impressed motif on floor (not visible). Yellow glaze over interior and exterior, except for most of interior of foot, undersurface.
Material:   White clay (all covered)
Condition:   Complete profile. 9 joining frgts., complete profile; complete foot, lower body, nearly half upper body, one handle, lower stump of 2nd.
Manufacture:   C68
Dimensions Actual:   H00.068 D00.060 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.116 (lip)
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   Middle Byzantine
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB162 P162
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0129
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum south central
Image: bw 4603
Basket: NB162 P162
Notebook Page: NB 162, spread 90 (pp. 162 - 163)