Corinth Object: C 1929 3
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1929 3
Title:   INCISED SGRAFFITO PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1929
Object Number:   3
Description:   Plate with low base ring, H00.005, flat undersurface with slight central depression. Nearly horizontal body, sharply upturned vertical rim H00.031 with convex profile, tapered lip. Body pared.
Decoration:   Pale pink slip over all. Champleve on interior: medallion covering floor, with deer standing rt., head turned back, nose scratched by raised hind leg. Ears upright, eye partly scraped with wavy browline; double bands and wavy line on neck, fringe of hair down back. Field filled with animals and filling ornament: above back, lt. to rt., bird r., hare, bird, hare; birds have horizontal feathers on wings and tails, circle for eye. Filling ornaments: 3-petal and 11-petal palmettes in circle, scrolls. Outer border of short vertical lines between double lines. Rim plain. Yellow glaze, thickly applied on interior, thinly over all exterior, there green.
Material:   Fine tan to light red clay, with moderate admixture of fine red, brown inclusions, fewer coarser (1-2 mm.) popped white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5YR 7/6 to slightly grayer than 7.5YR 7/4
Condition:   Complete or intact. Four joining frgts., complete; chips in glaze both on floor and around rim, inside and out.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   H00.040 D00.124 (base ring) D00.229 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   12th c. c. 1180-1200 (GS)
Area:   North Market
Context:   NB105 P50
Provenance:   Corinth ?
Bibliography:   AJA 1930 P443 Fig. 6B; Corinth XI P3331 N1666; Daskevitch, Svetskoi iskusstvo, 1975, p. 204 fig. 323
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Publication: de Waele, American Journal of Archaeolog34:4... 1930a
Monument: North Market
Image: bw 2279
Basket: NB105 P50