| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 1437a | |
| Title: | SGRAFFITO PLATE WITH "6" | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 1437 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Description: | Plate with vertical ring foot, broad flat resting surface, undersurface shallowly carved out of flat bottom. Body rises at ca. 30 degrees in series of 4 wheelmade steps to ca. H00.03, then continues smoothly with slight outward flare to oblique tapered lip. On interior, narrow rim trimmed back from body wall thickness. | |
| Decoration: | White slip on interior and overlapping exterior. Sgraffito decoration on interior: "6" on floor, 2 circumference grooves on upper body, one possible wavy line on rim. Yellow glaze, becoming brown where thick on rim, on interior and overlapping lip. | |
| Writing: | graffito. Possible graffito on exterior body: single line, then group of three. | |
| Material: | Fine clay fired tan at surface to pinkish tan at core with scattered fine, coarse white inclusions, at least one coarse red. | |
| Munsell Color: | Between 7.5YR 6/4 and 10YR 6/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Three joining frgts., complete profile and foot; nearly half lower half of body, 1/8 lip. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.082 D00.053 (foot) | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.17-00.18 (lip) | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Early 13th c., coins to Manuel I | |
| Area: | Forum north central | |
| Context: | NB171 P113 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum north central Basket: NB171 P113 |
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