Corinth Object: C 1933 711
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1933 711
Title:   BYZANTINE SLIP-PAINTED WARE PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1933
Object Number:   711
Old Number:   C-1933-705 (number lapsed)
Description:   Plate with heavy slightly flaring ring foot, flat undersurface, concave medallion, flaring walls. Decoration similar to C-1937-810 (Corinth 11).
Decoration:   On interior, 2 large boxed triangles covering floor, in center of which elaborate spiraliform pattern; groups of short curling fringes along perimeter of outer triangle; on body, row of circles - 1 fringed, 1 with spirals, one small fringed one. Thin white slip on exterior, yellow glaze on interior, making slip yellow, ground brown.
Material:   Coarse red clay with rare fine white voids and large coarse white voids and rare coarse voids.
Munsell Color:   2.5YR 6/4 (light reddish brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., (C-1933-705 lapsed) preserving all foot, lower body.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Actual:   Diam. 0.106 (foot)
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.045
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Area:   Forum southwest
Context:   NB133 P79
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southwest
Image: digital 2014 1491
Basket: NB133 P79
Notebook Page: NB 133, spread 50 (p. 79)