Corinth Object: CP 1455
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 1455
Title:   DARK-ON-LIGHT SLIP-PAINTED PLATE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   1455
Description:   Large plate with heavy vertical ring foot, flattened resting and undersurfaces. Straight flaring body rising at 30 degrees. Similar to C-1934-620 (Corinth 11).
Decoration:   On interior, edge of tondo with broken curving line, framed by 2 circumference lines; on body, spiraliform filler framed by half circles ? Traces of off-white slip on exterior. Yellow glaze inside, making biscuit red-brown.
Material:   Moderately fine pinkish tan clay with tiny white inclusions and rare fine voids.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of foot, lower body; glaze and slip largely gone.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.038
Dimensions Restored:   D00.14 (foot)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Context:   , Provenance unknown
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 3151
Image: digital 2014 1478
Basket: , Provenance unknown