Corinth Object: LOT 1976 245:14
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   LOT 1976 245:14
Title:   BYZANTINE PAINTED SGRAFFITO PLATE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   LOT
Year:   1976
Object Number:   245
Description:   Dish with low, slightly flaring ring foot and flat undersurface. Widely flaring body.
Decoration:   Painted Sgraffito. White slip all over, thinner outside. Sgraffito vegetable scrollwork in tondo surrounded by a brown simplified guilloche band infilled with green glaze. Narrow, sgraffito band on lower body decorated with sketchy spiral motif. Pale yellow over glaze inside.
Material:   Phyllite A1
Munsell Color:   2.5 YR 5/6 (red)
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts preserve one-third of foot and one-twelfth of lower body, missing rim.
Manufacture:   C 70 WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.034, W. 0.083
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. foot 0.10
Weight Description:   0.35
Weight:   0.35
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Ca.1120/1130 - ca. 1160 (Sanders 2003, p. 392).
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece