Corinth Object: C 1934 761a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 761a
Title:   INCISED SGRAFFITO DISC
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   761
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C-1934-761 b
Description:   Bowl with low, flaring ring foot, and straigh, flaring lower body.
Decoration:   White slip on all vessel. Free-style, incised-sgraffito decoration according to Morgan's classification. Morgan's decoration description: "battle scene (very fragmentary) with large figure in centre, and smaller figures, posed at right angles to it, in field with dots and uncertain incised motives". Greenish-yellow glaze on inner surface, almost colourless on outer surface.
Material:   Fine, hard fabric, red in colour, with few (0.25-0.5 mm) white-opaque, angular -spherical inclusions and rare (0.25-0.50 mm) rounded-spherical, black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   10R 5/6 (red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgts, non joining C-1934-761 b, preserves one-third of foor and base, one-tenth of body, missing rim.
Manufacture:   Wheel-made
Dimensions Preserved:   H. p: 0.019
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. foot 0.1
Weight Description:   0.084
Weight:   0.084
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   late 12th - 1st half 13th century
Area:   Agora Southeast
Context:   NB141 P20
Bibliography:   Morgan 1942, p. 319, no. 1537
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora Southeast
Image: digital 2014 1964