| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 2016 69 | |
| Title: | LUSTRE-PAINTED GLASS VESSEL: BODY | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 2016 | |
| Object Number: | 69 | |
| Description: | Pale-colored stained (or luster-painted) glass vessel. Pigment absorbed beneath surface through chemical reaction and permanently stained, becoming part of atomic structure. See Metropolitan Museum of Art "Stained, or Luster-Painted Glass from Islamic Lands" (S. Carboni and Q. Adamjee 2002, Department of Islamic Art, http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/slpg/hd_slpg.htm). | |
| Decoration: | Monochrome reddish brown silver-based or copper-based paint under surface, possibly floral or vine motif: short wide arrow(?) ending in circle on other end; short thin U-shaped semicircular(?) line to left and right of arrow. | |
| Material: | Clear brownish yellow glass with few small rounded spherical and small rounded platy bubbles. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small triangular part of body with sharp edges; surfaces smooth. | |
| Period: | Early Byzantine (610-802 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 7th-8th c., according to T. Antonaras | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Context: | Temple E, Southeast, context 989, LOT 2016 059 | |
| Provenance: | Arab, according to T. Antonaras | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Temple E, Southeast Image: digital 2016 3516 Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 989 |
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