Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1937 1180 | |
Title: | SGRAFFITO PLATE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1937 | |
Object Number: | 1180 | |
Description: | Plate with wide-flaring shallow body, tapered oblique lip. | |
Decoration: | Pale on interior, over lip, and dripping down exterior. Sgraffito decoration on interior: head of warrior facing lt., head tilted somewhat. Wears small bladder-shaped cap on head, double circles for eyes, moustache and goatee. Bit of shoulders with chain mail; holds large raquette-shaped shield to lt. Yellow glaze on interior, overlapping lip. Morgan: apparently by same hand as C-36-702. | |
Material: | Fine red clay with tiny white inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Between 5YR 6/6 and 2.5YR 6/6 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Two joining frgts., small part of upper body, lip; glaze worn. | |
Manufacture: | C70 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.055 W00.045 | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | Late Byzantine, coins late 11th-early 12th | |
Area: | Forum northeast | |
Context: | NB168 P116 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Forum northeast Basket: NB168 P116 |