Corinth Object: CP 1137
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 1137
Title:   BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   1137
Old Number:   CP-1135 CP-1136 CP-1213 (lapsed)
Description:   Bowl with high ring foot with convex profile, flat outturned resting surface, flat undersurface. Deep body spreading out nearly horizontally then curving up at ca. 60 degrees to round lip.
Decoration:   White slip over all; interior, large centralmedallion with 8 radiating floral spikes onimbricate ground, stems making cross at center;narrow hatched border, then wide band of floralspikes and spirals below lip. Pale yellow glazeover all. Morgan: by Clumsy Master.
Material:   Fine clay with scattered white inclusions, fired gray-buff through most of core, bright salmon at edges.
Munsell Color:   Ca. 10YR 7/4 (core) 5YR 5.5/8 (edges)
Condition:   Complete profile. Five joining frgts., 1/3 foot, 1/6 body to lip.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   H00.074-00.079
Dimensions Restored:   D00.08 (foot) D00.20 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Context:   , Provenance unknown
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0974
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Basket: , Provenance unknown