Corinth Object: C 1936 876
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 876
Title:   SGRAFFITO PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   876
Description:   Small plate with vertical ring foot, flattened resting surface, flattened undersurface (missing center). Shallow convex body rising irregularly at ca. 45 degrees to oblique squared lip.
Decoration:   White slip on interior; sgraffito cypress trees alternating with narrow candle-shaped motif with oblique hatching. Yellow glaze inside.
Material:   Moderately fine light tan clay with abundant fine to coarse white, red inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Roughly yellower than 7.5YR 7/4
Condition:   Complete profile. Three joining frgts., ca. 1/3 foot, lower body, 1/6 upper body to lip. Badly encrusted and spalding
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   H00.041
Dimensions Restored:   D00.08 (foot) D00.19 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine Coins to Alexiu I
Area:   South Stoa middle
Context:   NB161 P49
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Stoa middle
Basket: NB161 P49