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) |