Corinth Object: C 1937 1249
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1249
Title:   GREEN AND BROWN PAINTED III BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1249
Description:   Bowl with low ring foot, flat undersurface, streight, flaring lower body.
Decoration:   White slip on inner surface. Decoration as described by Morgan (Corinth XI, no. 476): "solid triple spiral device in the centre with concentric semicircles springing from interstices; in field foliate detail; all designs in green edged with brown'. Colourless overglaze on inner surface.
Material:   Fine, pink fabric with few, black, rounded, spherical inclusions, and rare ronded, spherical white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Outer margin: 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown), core:5 YR 7/4 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Three joining frgts preserve two-thirds of foot, one ninth of body, missing rim.
Manufacture:   Wheel-made
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.003
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. foot: 0.088
Weight Description:   0.179
Weight:   0.179
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Last quarter 12th century (Sanders 2003)
Area:   Forum north central
Context:   NB171 P23
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Morgan (1942), Corinth XI, cat. n. 476.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum north central
Image: bw 4552
Image: digital 2014 1616
Notebook Page: NB 171, spread 21 (pp. 22 - 23)