Corinth Object: C 1938 238
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 238
Title:   LIGHT-ON-DARK SLIP-PAINTED BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   238
Description:   Bowl with straight flaring body curving up to short vertical rim, inward thickened to form ledge around mouth.
Decoration:   Interior, heads of two fish swimming to lt., one on top of other; below rim guilloche, line below; on rim short strokes. Slip on exterior. Bright yellow glaze in, mottled green out.
Material:   Reddish-tan clay with dense amount of tiny black, white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/4 to 5YR 6/6
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., upper body to rim.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.079
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Area:   Forum north central
Context:   NB175 P55
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0705
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum north central
Basket: NB175 P55
Notebook Page: NB 175, spread 34 (pp. 55 - 56)