Corinth Object: C 1936 540
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 540
Title:   LIGHT-ON-DARK SLIP-PAINTED PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   540
Description:   Plate with shallow flaring body, low vertical rim with convex profile, slightly inturned lip.
Decoration:   Interior, trace of medallion with guilloche band; narrow chain; wide band of repeated zigzag, narrow chain on rim. Light yellow-green glaze over all, becoming green out.
Material:   Dark brown clay fired to dark gray at surfaces and core with numerous tiny white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Ca. between 5YR 4/4 and 2.5YR 4/4
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., ca. 1/8 circumference of body to lip, from above foot.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.036 (true) MPDim00.118
Dimensions Restored:   D00.22 (lip)
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   Context Frankish
Area:   Old_Ancient Corinth, West
Context:   NB156 P33
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0704
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Old_Ancient Corinth, West
Basket: NB156 P33