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) |