| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1934 1459 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED CHAFING DISH WITH RELIEF DECORATION | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1934 | |
| Object Number: | 1459 | |
| Description: | Brazier with top edge of articulated foot, stand and bowl make continuously straight flaring profile to inward thickened rim with groove in top surface for holding lid. Hemispherical bowl with nipple in center of floor. Door 0.055 wide in side of stand. Two vertical handles, oval in section, attached above foot and below rim. | |
| Decoration: | Decorated with cut-outs and relief: on stand, a row of palm trees(?) consisting of cross-hatched trunk, and 5 round fronds all in relief, with centers cut out; cut-out hole to lt. of first tree, row of cut-out triangles between trees 2-3 and 3-4; fourth missing trunk, cut-out circle in its place. Two large curving grooves frame top of door, flanked by circles; on opposite side row of triangular cut-outs. Above, below rim, band of incised cross-hatching. Brown glaze over all but interior of stand and underside of bowl. | |
| Material: | Fine light red clay with scattered sparkling inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Single frgt., nearly complete stand - missing foot, complete bowl except for ca. 1/8 circumference of upper body to rim; preserving handle stumps with small parts of tops of both. Rim chipped. Burning on interior of stand. | |
| Manufacture: | C73 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.168 (rim) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.122 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine | |
| Area: | Old_Forum ? | |
| Context: | Old_Forum ?, Exact provenance unrecorded | |
| Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 18 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Old_Forum ? Basket: Old_Forum ?, Exact provenance unrecorded |