Corinth Object: C 1938 289
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 289
Title:   MEASLES WARE VESSEL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   289
Description:   Vessel with carinated walls with outward thickened flaring rim with flaring squared lip. Similar to C-1938-188b.
Decoration:   White slip on exterior and interior. Light yellow glaze on interior. Animal head (griffin ?) in sgraffito on interior walls. Dots with brown paint on animal head. Stripes in brown paint on rim.
Material:   Coarse red clay with rare, fine white inclusions and rare, coarse gray inclusions amd rare fine voids.
Munsell Color:   2.5 YR 6/6 (light red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of wall, rim, lip. Slip on exterior very worn; slip on interior slightly worn.
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Area:   Forum north central
Context:   NB177 P106
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum north central
Image: digital 2014 1363
Notebook Page: NB 177, spread 58 (pp. 105 - 106)