Corinth Object: C 2006 18
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2006 18
Title:   HELLENISTIC INSCRIBED SAUCER
Category Code:   C
Year:   2006
Object Number:   18
Description:   Saucer with convex body and rounded lip.
Decoration:   Black glaze over all interior and exterior. Two wheel-incised horizontal lines defining inscription. Incised tendrils beneath lower line.
Writing:   inscribed. Band with inscription H. 0.008, below lip H. 0.005, Greek: .ON.
Material:   Fine pink to very pale brown clay, with rare spherical rounded small lime and rare fine sparkling inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Between 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) and 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small part of rim and body. Broken all around except at rim, chip out of rim. Small portions of incised tendrils preserved at bottom. Glaze very worn, only small traces remain.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   Th. 0.002
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.017, W. 0.035
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. of rim 0.100
Period:   Hellenistic
Area:   Panaghia north
Context:   NB977 B44 P109
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Panaghia north
Image: bw 2006 018 21
Basket: NB977 B44 P109