Corinth Object: C 1933 1339
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1933 1339
Title:   POLYCHROME WHITE WARE PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1933
Object Number:   1339
Description:   Plate with straight flaring body, extending to squared lip; on interior, concave rim articulated by ridge from body.
Decoration:   Exterior: parts of two elements on white ground, composed of blue-green and yellow stripes, heavily outlined in black, motif at left ending in erect spiral; black stripe below lip. Yellow on lip.Interior: green-blue rays (?) radiating on floor, yellow circumference band, ring of blue-green circles with black dot centers, yellow stripe; on rim, broken guilloche in black on blue-green ground. Clear glaze over all.
Material:   Dense white clay with fine voids, a few coarser inclusions.
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., outer body to rim, small part of circumference.
Manufacture:   C82
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.044 W00.036
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   78 Middle to Late Byzantine
Area:   Forum south
Context:   Forum south, Bakoulis House - exact provenance unknown
Provenance:   Constantinople
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south
Image: digital 2014 1819
Image: digital 2014 1820
Basket: Forum south, Bakoulis House - exact provenance unknown