Corinth Object: C 1933 756
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1933 756
Title:   BYZANTINE SLIP-PAINTED BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1933
Object Number:   756
Description:   Bowl with lower body spreading at ca. 30 degrees, then turning up to ca. 60 for most of height, to tapered lip. Similar in shape to C-1959-257. Decoration similar to C-1937-740.
Decoration:   On interior, arcs on floor within circumference line; on body, row of pendant and concentric quarter circles, overlapping in line, with small arcs as filler along bottom; circumference line, simple guilloche below lip. Glaze overall, fired olive-green in, becoming a runny brown below lip, and a metallic yellow-brown on the exterior.
Material:   Moderately fine light brown clay with with scattered white, brown inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Between 7.5YR 7/4 (pink), 6/4 (light brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving most of body profile, ca. 1/4 circumference.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.056
Dimensions Restored:   D00.17
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine ? Frankish?
Area:   Forum southwest South Stoa
Context:   NB133 P97
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southwest South Stoa
Image: digital 2014 1497
Image: digital 2014 1498
Basket: NB133 P97
Notebook Page: NB 133, spread 50 (p. 79)
Notebook Page: NB 133, spread 64 (pp. 97 - 98)