Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 1926 | |
Title: | HELLENISTIC MOLDED RELIEF BOWL | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 1926 | |
Description: | Bowl with flat bottom, hemispherical body, very tall rim, rising vertically with slight convex curve, then flaring slightly to tapered lip, as if two rims carelessly superimposed. | |
Decoration: | Medallion: rosette, 2 framing rings; corolla: row of ferns; body: vine with clumps of grapes circling bowl. Guilloche at base of rim with fillet below. Glaze over all, fired brown-black to reddish brown on exterior, black in. | |
Material: | Fine pale pink clay with tiny voids. | |
Munsell Color: | Slightly grayer than 7.5YR 8/3 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Three joining frgts., complete profile, all medallion, ca. 1/4 body, 1/8 rim; glaze largely worn.` | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.103 | |
Dimensions Restored: | D00.16-00.17 (lip) | |
Period: | 2nd c. B.C. | |
Chronology: | 3rd c. B.C. ? | |
Area: | New Museum | |
Context: | New Museum, In box labelled "Uninventoried Megarian Bowls" - p | |
Bibliography: | Cited Corinth VII.3 P162 N21 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Edwards, Corinth 7:3, 1975 Monument: New Museum Basket: New Museum, In box labelled "Uninventoried Megarian Bowls" - p |