| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 2269 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE CHAFING DISH | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 2269 | |
| Description: | Stand has flaring foot with rounded lip and offset by flange inside. Conical, outwardly concave stand attaches at base of dish. Wall of dish flares to inwardly thickened rim with bevelled rim. Rim offset by flange for lid inside. Wheel-ridged interior with flattened bottom. Vertical loop handle attaches to base stand above foot. Inverted triangular firing port sliced into stand wall and smoothed against base of bowl. Circular ventilation hole 0.02 in diameter punched through wall of stand opposite firing port. | |
| Decoration: | Dark matt-brown slip (5YR 5/1 gray) dribbled down exterior. Olive yellow glaze appearing olive brown over fabric on interior to inside edge of lip. Spots of glaze on lip and dabs inside foot. | |
| Material: | Medium hard fired, pink (Munshell 7.5 YR 7/4) clay with black and white inclusions. Smooth conchoidal break. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5 YR 7/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Three large frgts., preserving about one half of vessel to its full height including all of base, 1/8 of body and rim and the stub of one handle. Partially restored | |
| Manufacture: | C73 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 11th Century (Guy Sanders) | |
| Area: | Agora south central | |
| Context: | Agora south central | |
| Provenance: | local | |
| Findspot Description: | Pit at N-0: 21-23. Deposit Index Pit 1937-1. | |
| Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, pp. 178; Corinth 20, footnote 7, pp. 386, 2003. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Agora south central Basket: Agora south central |
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