Corinth Object: C 1935 255
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1935 255
Title:   GREEN AND BROWN PAINTED BOWL/PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1935
Object Number:   255
Description:   Bowl or plate with false ring foot; straight, flaring lower body.
Decoration:   Green and Brown Painted II according to Morgan's classification. White slip on all vessel, thinner on outer surface; brown painted medallion at centre, decorated with spirals; green glaze painted spirals on lower body; thin colourless overglaze on inner surface.
Material:   Fine, medium-hard, fabric, red in colour with few (0.25-1.5mm) spherical-angular, dark brown inclusions; rare (0.25-0.5 mm) silver sparkling inclusions; rare (0.25-1.5mm) white, spherical-angular inclusions.
Munsell Color:   2.5 YR5/6 (red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserves one-third of foot, one-twenthieth of lower body, missing upper body and rim.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. p. 0.028
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. Foot: 0.1
Weight Description:   0.093
Weight:   0.093
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   1140-1180 (Sanders 2003)
Area:   St. John's
Context:   NB150 P103
Provenance:   Imported
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: St. John's
Image: digital 2014 1703
Basket: NB150 P103