| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 1585 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE INCISED PLATE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 1585 | |
| Description: | Plate with vertical ring foot, flat resting surface, slightly recessed undersurface. Shallow wide-flaring body with slight convex profile, squared lip, slightly inward thickened to created a raised lip around interior. Paring marks visible on exterior of body, stacking scar near foot. | |
| Decoration: | Pale slip thickly applied to interior and overlapping lip, applied thinly to rest of exterior. On interior large tondo D00.09, with decoration in champleve technique: large lion or lionness without mane, to rt., head pulled back against chest, with large round eye, curving eyebrow, spiral nostril and 3 lines on top of head, thick tail curved above back; standing on deer crouched to rt., with long neck and head turned back; small floral spray by deer's nose. Clear glaze over all, fired to yellowish on interior. | |
| Material: | Moderately fine red clay with rare fine white inclusions, frequent medium-sized voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 5/6 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Eight joining frgts., complete profile and foot, 3/4 of body, over half lip. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.959 D00.107 (foot) D00.259 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 1200-1230 (G. Sanders) Context: coins of Manuel I (1143-80) | |
| Area: | Forum south central | |
| Context: | NB174 P75 | |
| Bibliography: | AJA 42, 1938, p. 369, fig. 10 rt.; Corinth XI P335 N1705, fig. 223. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Publication: Morgan, American Journal of Archaeolog42:3... 1938 Monument: Forum south central Image: bw 4441 Basket: NB174 P75 Notebook Page: NB 174, spread 43 (pp. 75 - 76) |
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