| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1962 127 | |
| Title: | EARLY ROMAN GREEN-GLAZED MODIOLUS | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1962 | |
| Object Number: | 127 | |
| Description: | A wheel-made beaker ("Modiolus") with flaring rim and a ridge inside the lip; projecting mouldings at base of wall; false ring foot; raised base. Single vertical handle consisting of two rolls of clay united in the lower half but separating at mid- point and curving out and downto join body on either side of the axis of the handle at point of separation the two rolld are bound by and encircling band, below which a projecting lug serves as thumb support. The decoration is of two types: barbotine slip, and applique elements attached wholly or only in part to the body of the vessel. The slip is a white clay over which the glaze assumes a light green color constrasting with the darker green tones over the basic clay of the vase. Of the applique decoration large portions stand out in the round, free from the body (some of the tendrils, the vine leaves and bunches of grapes, the fillets and the rosette. Photographed Before Painting Of Plaster. | |
| Decoration: | Around the base of the wall, an egg and dart patter in slip. Lower 2/3 of body decorated with two large complexes of leaves, tendrils and berries of grape, ivy and olive. The two complexes meet at front (opposite handle), where they are joined by an 8-petalled rosette at base of wall. The leaves and tendrils of ivy and the tendrils of olive are executed in slip; the tendrils, leaves and fruit of the grape and the fruit of the olive are applique. Below rim, on front of vase, two birds facing (executed in slip); below them (and just above the rosette), five olives (applique); to right and left of the pair of birds, floral patterns (slip) resembling fleur-de-lys. A fillet hangs from upper extremity of handle on either side. Below handle, a rudimentary palmette; upside down (slip). | |
| Material: | Fine, hard, orange-red clay. Dark green vitreous glaze overall (except the base inside the foot); traces of a dull red glaze paint on the base suggest that there was an under-glaze of non-vitreous type. | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Part of rim and upper wall missing; base and lower half of body complete in one piece. Parts of the relief decoration in lower half broken away. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.147, Diam. of lip 0.168, Diam of foot 0.102 | |
| Context: | NB249 P31 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Images (20) Notebook Page: NB 249, spread 22 (pp. 34 - 35) Notebook Page: NB 249, spread 23 (pp. 36 - 37) |
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