Corinth Object: C 1959 149B
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1959 149B
Title:   INSCRIBED CONSTANTINOPOLITAN WHITE WARE PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1959
Object Number:   149
Object Suffix:   B
Related Objects:   C-1959-149 A, C
Description:   Low ring footconvex inside, widely flaring outwardly convex body to slightly flaring, infolded rim with rounded lip and rolled ledge inside.
Decoration:   Incised curvilinear decoration highlighted decoration with combed bands and thin, iron oxide wash inside. Narrow band of iron oxide wash on rim inside and out cut by an incised wavy line inside. Pale greenish yellow glaze inside and out is stained and streaked dark orange by iron oxide wash.
Material:   Medium hard with white, red and gray inclusions. Smooth to slightly hackly and slightly conchoidal break.
Munsell Color:   5 YR 8/1
Condition:   Fragment. Thirty frgts., in three large non-joining parts and seven small non -joining sherds (a-c) preserve about 1/6 of body, rim and foot).
Manufacture:   C 70
Weight Description:   0.266
Weight:   0.266
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   Middle to Late Byzantine
Area:   Agora southwest
Context:   NB214 P122
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora southwest