Corinth Object: C 1937 1307
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1307
Title:   FRANKISH SGRAFFITO PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1307
Description:   Plate with flaring ring foot, flat resting surface. Shallow wide-flaring body, extending nearly horizontally, then turning gradually up to oblique round lip.
Decoration:   Pale slip inside and over upper part of body. Sgraffito dec. on interior: on floor, ring of large reserved circles, with oval bud in angles and wavy band on imbricate field; 5 circumference lines, broad border of tangent pointed ovals with smaller oval in center on imbricate field, 3 circumference rings below lip. Streaky glaze olive to yellow-brown on interior and over lip.
Material:   Moderately coarse red-brown clay with scattered voids.
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 6/4
Condition:   Complete profile. Single frgt., complete profile except for center floor. Ca. 1/5 circumference.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   H00.050
Dimensions Restored:   D00.11 (foot) D00.23 (lip)
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   13th c.
Area:   South Basilica
Context:   NB153 P41
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Basilica
Basket: NB153 P41
Notebook Page: NB 170, spread 50 (pp. 91 - 92)