Corinth Object: C 1938 729
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)