Corinth Object: C 1938 751
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 751
Title:   ARABIC GREEN-BROWN PAINTED BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   751
Description:   Bowl with shallow body rising at straight low angle to vertical rim H00.036 with torus lip.
Decoration:   Pale slip inside and out. Exterior: on rim concentric half-circles outlined in brown and filled with green, one set preserved with large green blob to lt. Inside: edge of green and brown stripes on floor; on rim, lower band of wavy lines in brown, brown stripe above, then thick green band with brown stripe below lip, lip irregularly green. Clear lustrous glaze over all.
Material:   Extremely granular gray clay, fired to brown where thickest, with dense admixture of tiny white inclusions, few voids.
Munsell Color:   Grayer than 10YR 5/2 (no good match)
Condition:   Fragment. Four joining frgts., small part of floor, rim.
Manufacture:   C84 WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.043 W00.085
Dimensions Restored:   D00.24-00.25 (rim)
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   10th c. ?
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB175 P27
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Image: bw 1998 010 17
Image: bw 1998 010 18
Basket: NB175 P27