Corinth Object: C 1935 16a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1935 16a
Title:   CONSTANTINOPOLITAN WHITE WARE CHAFING DISH WITH RELIEF
Category Code:   C
Year:   1935
Object Number:   16
Object Suffix:   a
Description:   Bowl with flaring convex wall to inturned lip. Cylindrical stand to flaring lip attaches to bowl below and at rim to form double lip seperated by a groove.
Decoration:   Appliqué dragon's head protome with incised and impressed detail. Row of closely spaced, impressed chevrons on outer lip. Thick, glossy yellow glaze with added green specks inside and out.
Material:   Medium Hard clay with white inclusions and conchoidal hackly break.
Munsell Color:   7.5 YR 8/2
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving about 1/8 of upper body and rim.
Manufacture:   C 67
Weight Description:   0.075 Kh
Weight:   0.075
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Last quarter of the 11h century (Guy Sanders)
Area:   St. John's
Context:   St. John's
Findspot Description:   NB 150 p. 89
Bibliography:   CORINTH XI N0160
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: St. John's
Image: digital 2014 2290