| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 748 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE WHITE WARE CUP | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 748 | |
| Description: | Cup with flaring ring foot, round resting surface and undersurface. Body in two degrees: lower straight flaring at 35 degrees to H00.029 and sharp articulation; upper body slightly inset, rising steeply with convex profile to inset vertical rim H00.011, vertical lip. Two vertical strap handles, thickening at upper attachment, attached to lower body and base of rim. | |
| Decoration: | Wheel-ridging on upper up; yellow glaze on interior and over rim, upper half of upper body, drips below and on handle back. | |
| Material: | Hard-fired light pink clay with frequent fine black, fewer small red inclusions. frequent fine voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | slightly yellower than 5YR 8/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. 8 joining frgts., complete profile; complete foot, nearly all lower body, over 1/4 upper body, rim; one handle, lower stump of 2nd. | |
| Manufacture: | C67 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.083 D00.063 (foot) | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.120-133 (lip) | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Middle Byzantine | |
| Area: | Forum northeast | |
| Context: | NB166 P213 | |
| Provenance: | Constantinople | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N0188 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum northeast Image: bw 4511 Basket: NB166 P213 Notebook Page: NB 166, spread 33 (pp. 213 - 214) |
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