Corinth Object: C 1938 385
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 385
Title:   LIGHT-ON-DARK SLIP-PAINTED BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   385
Description:   Bowl with ring foot (not preserved), shallow flaring body curving up to incurved lip.
Decoration:   Interior, broad band on floor of spiral floral sprays and rectilinear palmettes alternating with Kufic motifs arranged in triangular formation; below lip, wavy line. On lip dots. Bright yellow glaze in. Thin white slip out.
Material:   Bright reddish-brown clay with numerous tiny to coarser white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Yellower than 2.5YR 5/6
Condition:   Fragment. Three joining frgts. complete profile from just above foot to lip. Over 1/4 circumference.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.061
Dimensions Restored:   D00.29 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB176 P114
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0762
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB176 P114
Notebook Page: NB 176, spread 63 (pp. 113 - 114)