| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1934 1455 | |
| Title: | MEASLES WARE PLATE WITH CENTAUR | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1934 | |
| Object Number: | 1455 | |
| Description: | Small plate with low vertical ring foot, flat resting and undersurface. Nearly horizontal body turning up vertically to slightly inturned tapered rim. | |
| Decoration: | Slip over all. On interior: centaur in measles galloping to rt., carrying pointed oval shield in rt. hand, club or sword in lt. Floral spray in field. Glaze over all, yellow in, green out which has dribbled into interior. | |
| Mythology: | Centaur | |
| Material: | Moderately fine light red clay, numerous red inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Complete profile, ca. 1/2 whole vase. | |
| Manufacture: | C72 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.031 D00.064 (foot) D00.141 (lip) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | c. 1140-1170 (G. Sanders) | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB144 P75 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N0651 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum southwest Image: digital 2009 2484 Basket: NB144 P75 Notebook Page: NB 144, spread 43 (pp. 75 - 76) |
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