| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 878a | |
| Title: | SGRAFFITO PLATE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 878 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | C-1937-0878B | |
| Description: | Large plate with shallow straight flaring profile, tapered blunt lip. | |
| Decoration: | White slip inside and over lip. On interior, from center out, two parallel motifs resembling bent tails with stipples down narrow part and fringed tips; incised filler between and around them; outer band of cross-hatched incised "pine-cone" with long tails at either end. Yellow-green glaze over all, worn off in a band below exterior of lip. | |
| Material: | Moderately fine clay fired gray-buff in, tan out, with scattered white inclusions, voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | Near 2.5Y 8/2 to near 7.5YR 7/4 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Three joining frgts., preserving small part of upper body, nearly 1/4 lip. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.081 (true) | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.35 (lip) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine | |
| Area: | Forum northeast | |
| Context: | NB167 P394 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum northeast Basket: NB167 P394 |