KP412 (Middle Byzantine Corinthian Green and Brown Painted-Ware Bowl/Plate) [permalink] [show more links]
Type
Inventoried Object
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Byzantine Glazed Pottery
Typological identification comment
On Green and Brown Painted ware, Group III, see CorinthXI, pp. 77–80.
Description
Dish or bowl. Flaring lower wall. Short, broad, tapering ring foot with wheel ridging on interior. Exterior unfinished; interior has white slip, green to dark green and dark brown to black painted linear designs on lower body near floor, and clear to very light yellow glaze. Decoration painted in broad and narrow strokes on lower body to floor: two broad, long, bands or fields of green outlined by dark brown to black lines.
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Fabric: 2.5YR 5/8, red. Slip: white. Paint: green to dark green (PMS 7490–7743) and dark brown to black (7.5YR 4/2). Glaze: clear to very light yellow (close to PMS 155). Somewhat soft, medium-coarse fabric with very rare, small, rounded to subangular, white (lime) inclusions and small, sparking inclusions; rare small voids. Thin, uneven, dull slip, slightly flaky. Thin, uneven, matte paint, slightly flaky. Thick, even, semilustrous glaze, flaky, shows crazing.
Preservation comment
One fragment preserves small part of foot. Slight to moderate, sparse abrasion, chipping, and gouging.
Published as
Gregory2022, pp. 745-746, no. 286, fig. 18.4
Estimated base diameter
0.12
Preserved height
0.023
Preserved width
0.034
Chronology comment
Morgan‘s date revised to ca. 1160–1200 at Sanders2000, pp. 161–162, fig. 3 and Sanders2003, pp. 392–393, table 23.3.
Belongs to Historical Period
Middle Byzantine (Historical Period)
Suggested citation
“KP412 (Middle Byzantine Corinthian Green and Brown Painted-Ware Bowl/Plate).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <http://kenchreai.org/gaek/kp412>