| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1936 81 | |
| Title: | SGRAFFITO PLATE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1936 | |
| Object Number: | 81 | |
| Description: | Plate with ring foot, body rises at ca. 30 degrees inslightly convex curve to round lip with deep notches. | |
| Decoration: | White slip over all. Interior, medallion with heraldically opposed peacocks of which tails and one pair of legs preserved, floral filler; narrow band of beads; on outer body broad band of double zigzag making diamonds, each filled with feathered spiral. Pale yellow glaze in, becoming clear out. For similar plate cf. C-1935-587 C-1936-0294. Morgan: by Zigzag Master. | |
| Material: | Fine clay fired brown to gray with tiny white inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Ca. between 7.5YR 6/4 and 5YR 6/5 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining frgts., complete body profile from foot break to lip, ca. 1/3 body, 1/6 lip. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.096 (max) | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.28 (lip) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine | |
| Area: | Forum south central | |
| Context: | NB159 P210 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N0946 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum south central Image: bw 4440 Image: bw 4537 Basket: NB159 P210 Notebook Page: NB 159, spread 18 (pp. 209 - 210) Notebook Page: NB 159, spread 36 (pp. 245 - 246) |
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