Corinth Object: C 1934 1499 Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | C 1934 1499 | Title: | | LATE BYZANTINE DARK-ON-LIGHT SLIP-PAINTED PLATE | Category Code: | | C | Year: | | 1934 | Object Number: | | 1499 | Description: | | Plate with vertical ring foot, narrow resting surface, flat undersurface, very wide flaring body. Similar in shape to C-1934-355 (Corinth 11). | Decoration: | | White slip interior, brown slip-painted decoration, large four-pointed star on floor with reserved circles at angles between points, each having solid central circle and ring of dots; dots outlining points of star. Pale yellow glaze interior, greenish exterior. | Material: | | Moderately fine clay fired pink with rare white and black inclusions and few fine angular platy, angular spherical voids. | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving complete foot, floor, 1/2 body profile. | Manufacture: | | C79 | Period: | | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | Findspot Description: | | North of School in 1934, no notebook reference, provenance unknown. | Bibliography: | | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 584 | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Image: digital 2014 1432
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