Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1938 515 | |
Title: | BROWN-GLAZED CHAFING DISH WITH PLASTIC DECORATION | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1938 | |
Object Number: | 515 | |
Description: | Chafing dish with scar of stand on lower body of bowl; shallow ca. straight flaring body, thick round lip, horizontal flange on interior. | |
Decoration: | Plastic decoration: row of heads on upper body, placed upside down, with dots for eyes and gash mouths; each framed by a plastic arch with pellets and center and ends; on body below heads incised wavy line. Lustrous brown glaze inside and out. | |
Material: | Moderately coarse red clay with tiny white inclusions, voids. | |
Munsell Color: | Near 2.5YR 6/6 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Three joining frgts., upper body to rim, ca. 1/5 circumference. | |
Manufacture: | C73 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.088 MPDim00.148 | |
Dimensions Restored: | D00.24 (ca., rim) | |
Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
Chronology: | 78 Middle to Late Byzantine | |
Area: | St. John's south | |
Context: | NB181 P562 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: St. John's south Image: digital 2014 2324 Basket: NB181 P562 |