| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1961 23 | |
| Title: | MEASLES WARE PLATE OR BOWL | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1961 | |
| Object Number: | 23 | |
| Description: | Plate or shallow bowl with straight wall. | |
| Decoration: | Pale yellow (5Y 7/3) to yellow (5Y 7/6) interior slip with transparent glaze. Upper half of interior surface painted with evenly-spaced measles filling spaces between black lines; the lines form a thick ring with an open center but the overall motif is uncertain, serpent (?). A trace of the same decoration continues down the right edge. Olive (5Y 4/4) exterior glaze with rough finish, | |
| Material: | Semi-coarse light red clay with few medium black and large white quartz, and few medium white inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 6/6 (light red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of body. | |
| Manufacture: | C81 WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.006 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.081, W. 0.055 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.029 | |
| Weight: | 0.029 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 12th century A.D. (Sanders, Corinth XX, pp. 392-393). | |
| Area: | Agora southwest | |
| Context: | NB229 B1 P55, LOT 0626 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Agora southwest Image: digital 2010 4382 Basket: NB229 B1 P55 Notebook Page: NB 229, spread 32 (pp. 54 - 55) |
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