Corinth Object: C 1938 485
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 485
Title:   LARGE CHAMPLEVE PLATTER
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   485
Description:   Platter with vertical ring foot, flattened resting surface, flat undersurface, start of straight flaring body rising at 15-20 degrees.
Decoration:   White slip over all. Interior: body of large beast, directed lt., framed above and below by elaborately spiralling floral spray in champleve. Light green glaze over all.
Material:   Moderately fine red clay with scattered white inclusions, voids.
Munsell Color:   Slightly yellower than 2.5YR 5/4
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts.,3/4 foot and floor, lower body.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   D00.136 (foot)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.042
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late 12th or early 13th c.
Area:   St. John's south
Context:   NB181 P548
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N1689
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: St. John's south
Basket: NB181 P548