Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1934 859 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE SLIP-PAINTED PLATE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1934 | |
Object Number: | 859 | |
Description: | Plate with vertical ring foot, pierced for suspension, irregular resting surface, flat undersurface, nearly horizontal body. Similar to C-1935-341. | |
Decoration: | In white slip: cross-pattern made of simple guilloche with dotted circles in each link; curvilinear motif between. Clear glaze on interior, making ground yellow-brown, greenish and thin on exterior. | |
Material: | Coarse light red clay with dense amount of fine to coarser spherical red inclusions and rare coarse voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (light red) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving foot, floor, and small part of walls. | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | 11th c. CE, according to Morgan | |
Area: | Forum, Southwest | |
Context: | NB140 P176 | |
Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 722 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Forum, Southwest Image: digital 2014 1504 Notebook Page: NB 140, spread 94 (pp. 176 - 177) |