Corinth Object: C 1960 52
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1960 52
Title:   CONSTANTINOPOLITAN WHITE WARE TWO-HANDLE CUP
Category Code:   C
Year:   1960
Object Number:   52
Description:   Low flaring ring foot. Flaring lower body turning sharply up to vertical concave upper body. Vertical rim with rounded lip. Handles attach to lower body and top of the base.
Decoration:   Shallow incised line above angle of upper and lower body outside. Thin red washon upper body and rim outside. Thin, patchy yelow glaze and inside to top of foot appears orange over red wash.
Material:   Medium hard clay with white, red and gray inclusions. Smooth to slightly hackly break. (Sanders PhD: Fabric 3)
Munsell Color:   5 YR 8/4
Condition:   Fragment. Two frgts., preserve the base, the lower stumps of both handles and about 1/5 of the body and rim. Complete restored
Manufacture:   C 67
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   late 10th-late 11th (G. Sanders)
Area:   Agora southwest
Context:   Agora southwest
Findspot Description:   NB 217, p. 89
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora southwest
Image: bw 1962 006 09
Basket: Agora southwest