Corinth Object: C 1935 534
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1935 534
Title:   BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED CUP WITH TWO HANDLES
Category Code:   C
Year:   1935
Object Number:   534
Description:   Low disk foot, vertical slightly convex walls curving in to vertical rim with rounded lip, offset by pronounced raised band outside. Two vertical ring handles, square in section, attach at mid-body.
Decoration:   Plain brown glazed. Plastic animal protomes on handles with incised, impressed and appliqué physical features. Thick glossy yellow glaze inside and out but partially absent under handles and on foot.
Material:   Medium hard reddish brown clay
Munsell Color:   2.5 YR 5/4 to 5/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Nine frgts. preserving complete profile including 1/3 of base, 2/3 of the body, 1/6 of rim, and both handles. Completely restored in plaster.
Manufacture:   C 73
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   late 11th-early 12th c., according to GDRS
Area:   Agora Southeast
Context:   NB148 P60
    Agora Southeast
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora Southeast
Image: bw 4531
Notebook Page: NB 148, spread 35 (pp. 60 - 61)