Corinth Object: C 1937 734
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 734
Title:   POLYCROME CONSTANTINOPOLITAN WHITE WARE BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   734
Description:   Steeply flaring convex body to everted rim with thickened lip offset inside by a narrow ledge.
Decoration:   Type 2c. Symmetrical manganese vegetal kufesque motives, alternately infilled with blue-green and purple, seperated and underlined by a row of red dots. Manganese line at base of rim inisde. Brownish yellow on rim to lip inside. Large zones of added orange red slip outside
Material:   Medium hard clay with white, red and gray inclusions, with white (Musell 5YR 8/1) core and pink outer edge (Munsell 5 YR 8/3)
Munsell Color:   core: 5YR 8/1, outer edge (5YR 8/3)
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., preserving about 1/4 quarter of rim and upper body.
Manufacture:   C 67
Weight Description:   0.09
Weight:   0.09
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late 11th-12th century (Guy Sanders);
Area:   Forum northeast
Context:   Forum northeast
Findspot Description:   NB165 P164
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0331; Sanders 2001, fig.10.5: 31, p.96-97.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum northeast
Image: digital 2014 2656
Basket: Forum northeast
Notebook Page: NB 165, spread 92 (pp. 164 - 165)