Corinth Object: C 1934 905
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 905
Title:   INCISED SGRAFFITO BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   905
Description:   Bowl with preserved attachment of tall foot, flat interior curving up to convex body.
Decoration:   White slip on all vessel. Free-style, incised-sgraffito decoration according to Morgan's classification. Decoration, as described by Morgan: "in centre, quadrangular figure, the angles tipped with circles, from whose sides radiate four pointed-ovals". Greenish yellow glaze on interior surface, green glaze 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 5/8 (red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserve central part of base, missing foot, body and rim
Manufacture:   Wheelmade
Dimensions Preserved:   L: 0.061, W: 0.014
Weight Description:   0.038
Weight:   0.038
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late 12th - 1st half 13th century
Area:   Agora southwest
Context:   NB143 P28
Provenance:   Imported
Bibliography:   Morgan 1942, p. 325, no. 1615.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora southwest
Image: digital 2014 1953
Notebook Page: NB 143, spread 28 (pp. 45 - 46)