Corinth Object: C 1937 867a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 867a
Title:   SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   867
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C-1937-0867B
Description:   Bowl with vertical ring foot, flat resting surface, inside of foot angled into flat undersurface. Echinoid body, incurving tapered lip. Paring marks on body.
Decoration:   White slip thickly applied on interior, thinly on interior. Sgraffito on interior: hind-end of large fish, body covered with rows of long parallel lines; two pair of fins rendered similarly with long parallel lines; surrounding fish in field row of elongated chevrons, each composed of 3 parallel lines; no other frame. Pale yellow glaze over slip.
Material:   Fine orange-tan clay with rare tiny white inclusionsand scattered coarse white ones, coarse voids.
Munsell Color:   Slightly redder than 5YR 5/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Four joining frgts., preserving nearly half vessel.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   H00.083
Dimensions Restored:   D00.11 (foot) D00.26-00.265 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Area:   Forum northeast
Context:   NB167 P394
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N1213
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum northeast
Basket: NB167 P394
Notebook Page: NB 167, spread 39 (pp. 393 - 394)