Corinth Object: C 1937 731a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 731a
Title:   FRANKISH INCISED PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   731
Object Suffix:   a
Description:   Plate with vertical ring foot, flat resting surface, flat undersurface. Straight flaring body rising at ca. 30 degrees.
Decoration:   White slip on interior. Central medallion: simple interlace on scraped ground; 10 circumference rings. Wide band of concentric circles, linked by interlace on imbricate ground, each filled with crosshatching. Large brown spots over all. Yellow glaze on interior.
Material:   Moderately fine tan clay with frequent fine white inclusions, voids; clay fired to gray brown toward interior.
Munsell Color:   Between 5YR 5/7 and 2.5YR 5/7 (fresh break)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., complete foot, lower body.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   D00.118 (foot)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.062
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   13th c.
Area:   Forum northeast
Context:   NB166 P213
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N1651
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum northeast
Basket: NB166 P213