Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 1642 | |
Title: | ROMAN RELIEF WARE BOWL | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 1642 | |
Old Number: | formerly MF 195B | |
Related Objects: | H: 0.044 | |
Description: | Base with moulding angles slightly to false ring foot. Vertical body, with squared rim. | |
Decoration: | Dull reddish-brown glaze. Lower moulding has two horizontal grooves. On left of body, figure standing before round altar holding a cornucopia (?); satyr carrying off a nymph or maenad with thyrsos; figure (satyr?) wearing short kilt pulling the bough of a tree or vine, behind, a table with objects atop (fruit?). All figures had verical grooves below them, forming a ground line of sorts. | |
Material: | fine clay with few small inclusions | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5 YR 6/4 (light brown) | |
Condition: | Fragment. One fragment preserves rim (nearly 1/2 of circumference), body, and base. Glaze is slightly worn, especially at upper and lower mouldings. | |
Manufacture: | C26 MW | |
Dimensions Restored: | Diam.: 0.070 (rim) | |
Area: | Julian Basilica | |
Context: | NB81 P285 | |
Bibliography: | Spitzer, Hesperia 1942, p. 189, no. III.3 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Spitzer, Hesperia 11:2, 1942 Monument: Julian Basilica Basket: NB81 P285 Notebook Page: NB 81, spread 52 (pp. 284 - 285) |