Corinth Object: C 1934 890
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 890
Title:   BYZANTINE MEASLES WARE DISH
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   890
Description:   Dish or bowl (?) with shallow body, curving out to high flaring rim, vertical rounded lip.
Decoration:   Slip on interior and exterior upper rim; light yellow glaze all over. Large eagle facing right, open wing project forward. Short vertical strokes on lip. Similar to C-1936-311.
Material:   Coarse reddish yellow clay with few rounded spherical and tabular white and gray inclusions, and common rounded and subrounded spherical and angular platy voids.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving approx. 1/6 of body to rim.
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Based on Morgan 1942, Corinth 11.
Area:   Agora southwest
Context:   NB143 P33
Bibliography:   Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 688
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora southwest
Image: digital 2014 1549
Notebook Page: NB 143, spread 22 (pp. 33 - 34)