Corinth Object: C 1934 1434
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 1434
Title:   INCISED SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   1434
Description:   Bowl with straight flaring body.
Decoration:   White slip on inner surface. Free-style, incised-sgraffito decoration according to Morgan's classification. Sgraffito male figure with on bust an incised Latin cross surrounded by four dots. Uncertain sgraffito motive on the right of the figure (shield), decorated with incised stars. Greenish yellow glaze on outer inner surface and thinner on outer surface.
Material:   Hard, yellow fabric with few (0.25-0.50 mm) rounded-spherical dark-red inclusions; rare (0.25-1.50mm) spherical-angular white-opaque inclusions; rare (0.50-1.50 mm) tabular-sub-rounded, black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/6 (yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserves one-twentieth of body, missing base and rim
Manufacture:   Wheel-made
Dimensions Preserved:   L.p.: 0.045, W.p.: 0.052
Weight Description:   0.023
Weight:   0.023
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late 12th - 1st half 13th century
Area:   Agora southwest
Context:   NB144 P55
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora southwest
Image: digital 2014 1958