Corinth Object: C 1936 391
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 391
Title:   BYZANTINE WHITE WARE RED-PAINTED PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   391
Description:   Large plate with straight flaring body rising at ca. 45 degrees, turning out to infolded rim with rounded lip seperated from rolled ledge by broad groove inside.
Decoration:   Red (Munsell 10 R 5/8) slip-painted festoon below rim and red clay pellets between raised bands on rim inside. Band of red wash on rim outside. Uneven thick glossy pale olive green glaze, absent in patches, inside and out stained dark greenish brown in vicinity of red slipped decoration.
Material:   Very pale off-white clay with dense admixture of fine black inclusions.
Condition:   Fragment. Nine joining frgts., most of body profile to rim, over half circumference. Partially restored in plaster
Manufacture:   C67
Dimensions Actual:   D00.296 (rim)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.067 (true)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   3rd quarter of the 11th century (Guy Sanders) Context dated to 1143-80 (coins)
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB159 P260
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB159 P260
Notebook Page: NB 159, spread 43 (pp. 259 - 260)