Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | CP 939 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED CHAFING DISH WITH RELIEF | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | CP | |
Object Number: | 939 | |
Description: | Chafing dish with cylindrical stand, widening to flaring lip. On interior, deep bowl attached to top of stand, ending in horizontal flange. Body of stand has cut-outs, in form of wide- and narrow-spaced vertical slots. Similar to C-1936-501 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 8). | |
Decoration: | Relief decoration: flute player, facing front, wearing short pointed cap, disk eyes, holding long flute obliquely across mouth, with rt. Hand from below, lt. over top; flanked by monstrous heads, one with goat horns. Thick brown glaze inside and out. Similar to C-1936-503A (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 12). | |
Material: | Moderately fine light red-brown clay with fine sand, scattered white, red inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Slightly redder than 5YR 5.5/6 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper part of stand, bowl, to rim. | |
Manufacture: | C73 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.082 (max) | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Context: | , Provenance unknown | |
Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 15 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Image: bw 3211 Image: digital 2014 2325 Basket: , Provenance unknown |