Corinth Object: C 1934 1552
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 1552
Title:   BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED CHAFING DISH
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   1552
Description:   Chafing dish with flat bottom, convex body, thick walls. Similar to C-1937-1239 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 2).
Decoration:   Brown glaze on interior.
Material:   Coarse very light brown clay with small to large subrounded spherical and tabular common gray, few red and white inclusions. Frequent small and large rounded spherical and angular platy voids.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 7/3 (very light brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving approx. 2/3 (or more) of bottom, and part of lower body.
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   Middle to Late Byzantine, based on comparanda
Area:   South Basilica
Context:   NB146 P61
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Basilica
Image: digital 2014 1291
Notebook Page: NB 146, spread 35 (pp. 61 - 62)