Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1936 2484 | |
Title: | CONSTANTINOPOLITAN WHITE WARE JAR | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1936 | |
Object Number: | 2484 | |
Description: | Jar with low rounded shoulder, tapering to short wide concave neck, slightly outward and inward thickened rim with beveled lip. | |
Decoration: | White slip inside and out (?); exterior: edge of dark green(?) guilloche (?), outlined in brown; above, dark green stripe between brown lines at top of shoulder; rim and lip yellow with black line at base of rim; on interior of rim yellow-brown stripe between black lines. Painted decoration lustrous; unclear whether thin clear glaze over exterior and interior of rim. | |
Material: | Hard-fired white clay with frequent sand and fine black inclusions. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., upper part of shoulder to rim, ca. 1/6 circumference. | |
Manufacture: | C67 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.038 W00.067 | |
Dimensions Restored: | D00.14 (rim) | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | Late Byzantine | |
Area: | South Basilica | |
Context: | NB153 P139 | |
Provenance: | Constantinople | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: South Basilica Image: bw 1998 001 29 Basket: NB153 P139 Notebook Page: NB 153, spread 77 (pp. 138 - 139) |