Corinth Object: C 1937 700
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 700
Title:   LIGHT-ON-DARK SLIP-PAINTED PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   700
Description:   Plate with slightly flaring ring foot, resting surface not fully trimmed to flat, flat undersurface. Wide flaring body.
Decoration:   Decoration in light slip, inside, on floor curvilinear motif of "T" with volutes and circles in field; second band of double concentric circles; bands separated by wavy lines, running across plate (not in circles). Glaze fired light olive-green in, dark green out, with drips on undersurface.
Material:   Moderately fine tan clay fired to light red at core with tiny white and brown inclusions and rare spherical angular voids.
Munsell Color:   Near 7.5YR 7/4 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving ca. 1/8 foot, ca. 1/8 floor, small part of lower body.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.021
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. 0.090 (foot)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   context Early Turkish
Area:   St. John's
Context:   NB169 P310
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: St. John's
Image: digital 2014 1466
Basket: NB169 P310
Notebook Page: NB 169, spread 61 (pp. 310 - 311)