Corinth Object: LOT 488:12
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   LOT 488:12
Title:   BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   LOT
Object Number:   488
Description:   Bowl with low, slightly flaring ring foot with inner bevelled edge. Straight, widely flaring lower body to carination. Flaring upper body.
Decoration:   Sgraffito, as Corinth XI cat. no. 1103, fig. 104 b. White slip inside, smudge of white slip on upper body outside. Sgraffito bird with long neck, facing left, with rows of looped lines on body as feathers. Pale greenish yellow glaze inside. Unslipped and unglazed outside and inside foot.
Material:   Clay Temper A3
Munsell Color:   5 YR 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserves one-third of foot and undersurface, one-sixth of lower body, one-twelfth of upper body. Missing rim. Crusted glaze.
Manufacture:   C 70 WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.026, W. 0.081
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. foot 0.055
Weight Description:   0.050
Weight:   0.050
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Ca. 1160 - ca. 1200 (Sanders 2003, p. 393).
Area:   Forum
Context:   NB219 B1 P46
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum
Basket: NB219 B1 P46