| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1938 454a | |
| Title: | SGRAFFITO PLATE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1938 | |
| Object Number: | 454 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | C-1938-454B | |
| Description: | Plate with vertical ring foot with beveled resting surface, slightly convex undersurface. Shallow wide-flaring body rising at ca.20 degrees to horizontal outturned rim with tapered lip. | |
| Decoration: | Pale slip on interior. Sgraffito decoration: large medallion on floor with cross made of 4 double arcs, spiral filler in angles; outer band of hatching; broad band near rim with rinceau. On rim widely spaced panels of crosses with triangles in angles, framed by 3 lines (one set preserved). Clear glossy glaze fired to grayish over interior, and upper half of exterior., where greenish. | |
| Material: | Moderately coarse clay fired buff at outer surface, pale pink at inner surface with dense admixture of tiny black, and some coarser, inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Near 2.5Y 7/2 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Three joining frgts., complete profile. Complete foot, ca. 1/12 lower body, 1/4 upper body to rim. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.052 D00.075 (foot) | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.22-00.23 (rim) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 12th c. | |
| Area: | St. John's south | |
| Context: | NB181 P512 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth ? | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: St. John's south Basket: NB181 P512 Notebook Page: NB 181, spread 60 (pp. 511 - 512) |
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