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 |