Corinth Object: C 1933 562
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1933 562
Title:   PROTOMAIOLICA PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1933
Object Number:   562
Description:   Plate with shallow straight flaring body, turning up to broad, oblique outturned rim; slight ridge at interior junction of body and rim.
Decoration:   White slip on interior and overlapping lip. Floor: radiating blue pointed petals outlined in black, alternating with yellow "seed-pods", with spiral filler in field; light blue circumference band, 3 black lines belwow rim; on rim, band of blue spiral motif. Clear glaze.
Material:   Pale yellow clay with tiny voids, dark inclusions.
Munsell Color:   2.5Y 8/3
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., upper body and rim, missing lip.
Manufacture:   C74
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.065 W00.089
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   13th c.
Area:   Forum southeast
Context:   NB135 P54
Provenance:   South Italy
Bibliography:   Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 806
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum southeast
Basket: NB135 P54
Notebook Page: NB 135, spread 32 (pp. 54 - 55)