Corinth Object: C 1938 193
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 193
Title:   POLYCHROME WHITE WARE CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   193
Description:   Cup with small torus ring foot, flat undersurface, plump ovoid body with max. diam. below median, low flaring rim; vertical strap handle attached to lower body and base of rim.
Decoration:   Exterior, 2 bands of blue-green, in handle zone, large blue-green spots in quatrefoil on field of red dots; black lines framing handle, line at base of yellow rim. Red and black stripes on handle. Interior, cross crosslet in black on floor, largely gone. Clear glaze over all.
Material:   Fine white clay fired to pale pink near outer surface, with tiny black, a few red inclusions.
Condition:   Complete profile. Ten joining frgts., complete profile, complete foot, floor, ca. 1/8 body to lip, one handle.
Manufacture:   C67
Dimensions Actual:   H00.069 D00.045 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.09 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine Context to John I
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB175 P102
Provenance:   Constantinople
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0333
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum south central
Image: digital 2014 2700
Basket: NB175 P102
Notebook Page: NB 175, spread 57 (pp. 101 - 102)