Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1975 355 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE INCISED SGRAFFITO BOWL | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1975 | |
Object Number: | 355 | |
Description: | Wide shallow slightly convex bowl with vertical ring foot and inward thickened rim, slightly squared inturned lip. | |
Decoration: | Entire vessel white slipped, interior yellow-glazed with incised decoration. Incised lines filled in with brown paint. Compass drawn concentric overlapping circles with tight crosshatching in upper space between circles and edge of rim. Wavy loose crosshatching fills in hexagonal space in center of plate between lower edge of circles, with loose 8 pointed "star" shape in center of each circle. Similar to C-1959-126 and C-1937-1744. | |
Material: | Light reddish brown with few small tabular sub rounded inclusions, with rare medium spherical sub rounded white inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/4 (light reddish brown) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Six joining frgts., preserving ca. 1/4 of vessel, full base and 10% of rim. Fresh break in base center, accretions and chips throughout. Inventoried from Lot 1975-102. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | or Frankish, based on comparanda | |
Area: | Forum southwest | |
Context: | NB625 B91 P92 | |
NB625 B96 P102 | ||
NB625 B97 P103 | ||
NB625 B92 P93 | ||
NB625 B94 P100 | ||
NB625 B98 P104, LOT 1975 102 | ||
LOT 1975 102 | ||
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Forum southwest Image: digital 2017 1758 Basket: NB625 B97 P103 Basket: NB625 B98 P104 |