Corinth Object: CP 1478
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 1478
Title:   PROTOMAIOLICA OR ARCHAIC MAIOLICA BOWL
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   1478
Description:   Bowl with body flaring at ca. 30 degrees, turning up briefly to broad, oblique rim, round lip. Small holes along both breaks - 2 to lt., 1 to rt., for mending ?
Decoration:   Body: dotted small circle in black, framed by green (?) stripe to lt., and circumference stripe above; 3 black circumference stripes above; rim: black chevrons in band to rt., over purplish brown band, on yellow background; 2-3 black bands just within lip. Traces of tin glaze on interior and over lip.
Material:   Fine, sandy clay fired pale buff at surfaces, bright pink at core, numerous fine voids, a few red inclusions, numerous tiny sparkling ones.
Munsell Color:   10YR 8/3 (surface) 5YR 6/6 (core)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., bit of upper body, rim.
Manufacture:   C74
Dimensions Preserved:   MPDim00.055
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   Frankish
Context:   , Provenance unknown
Provenance:   South Italy
Bibliography:   Waage, Hesperia 1934 P132 Fig.5,8
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Waage, Hesperia 3:2, 1934
Image: bw 3150
Basket: , Provenance unknown