| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 1616 | |
| Title: | COARSE SGRAFFITO PLATE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 1616 | |
| Description: | Plate with low vertical ring foot, rounded resting surface, flat undersurface. Shallow wide-flaring body rising at ca. 15 degrees with rounded profile, round lip. | |
| Decoration: | White slip over all, more thinly applied to exterior. Sgraffito dec. on interior: central medallion with 5 radiating spirals on imbricate ground, central compass point; 3 framing lines; plain band; broad band of degenerate Kufic on imbricate ground between double lines. Yellow glaze on interior, overlapping lip, with splashes on exterior. Incision coarse. | |
| Material: | Coarse clay fired reddish brown to gray brown with coarse white inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 5/6 to 5YR 6/6 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Four joining frgts., 4/5 foot, ca. all floor, most of lower half body, 1/8 lip. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.042 D00.109 (foot) | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.125 (lip) | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 134th c. ? Coins to Manuel I (1143-80) | |
| Area: | Forum north central | |
| Context: | NB172 P8 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N1624 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum north central Basket: NB172 P8 Notebook Page: NB 172, spread 15 (pp. 8 - 9) |
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