Corinth Object: C 1938 386
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 386
Title:   INCISED WARE BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   386
Description:   Bowl with slightly flaring ring foot, flat resting surface, rounded undersurface. Straight flaring body rising at ca. 45 degrees to tapered lip.
Decoration:   White slip over all. On floor, champleve decoration: central medallion, divided into 4 by cross; in each angle a coarse spiral. Clear to pale yellow glaze, slightly blackened in places, over interior and lip.
Writing:   graffito. Graffito on undersurface: branch
Material:   Moderately fine light red clay with frequent tiny and rare coarse white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5YR 5/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Four joining frgts., complete except for small part of upper body to lip, large chip in lower body in interior., two chips in lip.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   H00.064 D00.083 (foot) D00.185 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   ? 84? Late 12th or early 13th c.
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB176 P114
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N1730
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)