Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1938 729 | |
Title: | PROTOMAIOLICA DISH | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1938 | |
Object Number: | 729 | |
Description: | Plate, vertical ring foot with nippled undersurface, straight flaring bdy at ca. 40 deg., with off-set flaring rim with inward thickening forming a sharp edge at juncture to body. | |
Decoration: | Body (inside): Four palm leaves (black paint) with green dots along the edges radiating from bottom of plate to rim, alternating with large concave-sided triangles filled with scale pattern (yellowish-green paint); three black lines at the junction of body to rim. Rim: guilloche (green paint) and three lines along top of rim. The whole plate is covered with transparent glaze on the inside and on part of the rim on the outside. | |
Material: | Moderately fine gray buff clay with numerous voids, pinkish on the inside. | |
Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/2.5 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Five joining frgts., preserving complete profile and one fifth of body, one fifth of rim and complete foot. | |
Manufacture: | WM 74 proto-majolica | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.079 D00.079 (foot) | |
Dimensions Restored: | D00.24 (rim) | |
Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
Chronology: | Frankish: late 13th-early 14th | |
Area: | Museum west | |
Context: | NB184 P29 | |
Provenance: | Italy | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Museum west Basket: NB184 P29 Notebook Page: NB 184, spread 20 (pp. 29 - 30) |