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) |