| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1961 90 | |
| Title: | FIGURED SGRAFITTO BOWL BASE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1961 | |
| Object Number: | 90 | |
| Description: | Plate or shallow bowl with a flaring ring foot and flat undersurface | |
| Decoration: | Very pale brown (10YR 7/4), unglazed slip on exterior (self slipped?), and bright green (not on Munsell scale) glaze on interior; shallow incised decoration depicts a human figure with a pointed chin, strands of wavy hair behind head to the right, and a conical neck; he or she wears a loose gown-like garment, the body of which is filled by rows of incised vertical or diagonal lines, while the upraised right arm, is covered in a scale-like pattern; at the bottom hem of the gown is a thin horizontal band with no filling, below which the vertical line pattern above resumes. | |
| Material: | Granular reddish yellow fabric with frequent large brown (mudstone) and rare medium white inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. A single fragmen preserving 1/5 of the foot, and nearly 1/2 of the underside; on the interior, there is a horizontal gash (W. 0.027) to the left of the main figure; glaze worn away on much of the upper part of the figure | |
| Manufacture: | C70 WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of body 0.007, Th. of foot 0.006, H. of foot 0.018 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.080, W. 0.081 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam. of foot 0.100 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.059 | |
| Weight: | 0.059 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 12th century A.D. | |
| Area: | Agora southwest | |
| Context: | NB229 B31 P103, LOT 0638 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Agora southwest Image: bw 1961 035 05 Basket: NB229 B31 P103 Notebook Page: NB 229, spread 56 (pp. 102 - 103) |
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