Corinth Object: C 1934 773
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 773
Title:   INCISED SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   773
Description:   Bowl with convex, flaring lower body, curving sharply up to straight, flaring upper body. The thinner upper body is framed by a double groove at carination.
Decoration:   White slip on all vessel. Free-style, incised-sgraffito decoration according to Morgan's classification. Morgan's decoration description: "lion (?) punces to left on hind leg of small animal who struggles to get away (scene very fragmentary). Yellow glaze on inner surface, colourless on outer surface.
Material:   Fine, hard fabric, light-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:   2.5 YR 6/6 (light red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserves one-eighth of body, missing base and rim.
Manufacture:   Wheel-made
Dimensions Preserved:   L: 0.089, W: 0.083
Weight Description:   0.077
Weight:   0.077
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   13th century
Area:   Agora Southeast
Context:   NB141 P46
Provenance:   Imported
Bibliography:   Morgan 1942, p. 324, no. 1598.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora Southeast
Image: digital 2014 1966
Notebook Page: NB 141, spread 37 (p. 46)