Corinth Object: C 1934 1485 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | C 1934 1485 | | Title: | | BYZANTINE MEASLES WARE PLATE | | Category Code: | | C | | Year: | | 1934 | | Object Number: | | 1485 | | Description: | | Plate with low vertical foot, rounded resting surface and flat undersurface, nearly flat horizontal body. | | Decoration: | | Slip and pale yellow glaze on interior. Four large diamonds radiating from central small circle, filled with scale pattern; pendent half circles between diamonds. Similar to C-1935-537 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 641). | | Material: | | Pink clay with rare small and medium subrounded spherical and tabular gray inclusions, and few small and medium angular platy and tabular and rounded spherical voids. | | Munsell Color: | | Near 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Three joining frgts., preserving approx. 1/4 of foot and lower body. | | Period: | | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | | Chronology: | | Based on comparanda | | Area: | | South Basilica | | Context: | | NB142 P17 | | Bibliography: | | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 642. | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: South Basilica
Image: digital 2014 1558
Notebook Page: NB 142, spread 13 (pp. 16 - 17)
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