Corinth Object: C 2003 15
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2003 15
Title:   LATE NEOLITHIC POLYCHROME BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   2003
Object Number:   15
Description:   Bowl with slightly convex flaring walls and rounded lip.
Decoration:   Exterior and interior covered with light yellowish brown slip; exterior, red painted band around rim with black painted herringbone design over red. Interior, red paint bordered by black band on top, placed horizontally to diagonal black triangle bordering red band around rim. Similar to Gonia Style, also similarities to other Neolithic polychrome pottery such as Polychrome Sesklo.
Material:   Light pinkish-brown clay with common medium angular to platy black and red (possibly broken up pottery/grog) inclusions with rare voids.
Munsell Color:   Clay: 7.5YR 8/4 (pink); Slip: 10YR 8/6 (yellow), 10YR 4/1 (dark gray), 5YR 5/6 (yellowish red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single fragment broken on three sides with 2% of rim preserved.
Manufacture:   C08 HM
Dimensions Actual:   T00.006
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.053 W00.023
Weight Description:   00.010
Weight:   00.010
Period:   Neolithic
Chronology:   Late Neolithic
Findspot Description:   Found while cleaning in robbing trench 85R in Panayia Villa on April 21, 2003.
Bibliography:   Sanders et al., Hesperia 83:1, 2014
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Sanders et al., Hesperia 83:1, 2014
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