| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 943a | |
| Title: | ROMAN RELIEF WARE BOWL | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 943 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | CP 943 B | |
| Description: | Bowl with vertical body. Base, moulded, is slightly angled from the body to a false ring foot. Rim is squared and slightly everted with moulding below. Interior curves slightly outward. | |
| Decoration: | Clay is darkened in firing and has a dull greenish-buff glaze. Upper moulding near rim is decorated with two grooves, as is lower moulding. On body, from left to right, part of a thyrsos, male figure (satyr) moving to the right with one arm upraised; woman with long garment reaching towards a tree or vine, altar with round object atop to her left and vessel on the ground to the right; figure (satyr?) plucks fruit from a tree; behind him, a table with objects (fruit?). Trees inbetween figurs and scenes. Corresponds to Spitzer's Type III, Fig. c, d, and e. | |
| Material: | fine, hard clay with small white inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | 10 YR 6/4 (light yellowish brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Three joining fragments preserve rim, body, and base. | |
| Manufacture: | C26 MW | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H: 0.061 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam.: 0.090 (rim) | |
| Area: | Provenance Unknown | |
| Context: | Provenance Unknown, No recorded provenance | |
| Bibliography: | Spitzer, Hesperia 1942, p. 189, no. III.2 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Spitzer, Hesperia 11:2, 1942 Monument: Provenance Unknown Basket: Provenance Unknown, No recorded provenance |