Corinth Object: C 1934 1406
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 1406
Title:   BYZANTINE MEASLES WARE BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   1406
Description:   Bowl with straight flaring body (?), high vertical rim, flat squared lip projecting outward. Similar to C-1934-794 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat.682).
Decoration:   Slip and pale yellow glaze all over, green streaks on exterior. Interior with sgraffito lines and dots - perhaps wing of bird?, and short strokes on lip.
Material:   Reddish-yellow clay with few small to large rounded spherical and tabular red, white and gray inclusions, and few small and large rounded spherical and angular tabular voids.
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 8/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., preserving approx. 1/4 of rim, start of body.
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Based on comparanda
Area:   Agora southwest
Context:   NB143 P171
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora southwest
Image: digital 2014 1556
Notebook Page: NB 143, spread 91 (pp. 171 - 172)