Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1933 384a | |
Title: | CONSTANTINOPOLITAN WHITE WARE CHAFING DISH | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1933 | |
Object Number: | 384 | |
Object Suffix: | a | |
Description: | Straight flaring body to junction with dish. Straight flaring dish wall to slightly everted rim folded inwards to create a raised ridge inside to receive a lid. Broad, vertical loop handle, with flattened oval section, attaches below the rim and the upper body. | |
Decoration: | Slip painted. Two rows of closely spaced, broad, vertical, red slip painted lines outside. Yellow glaze inside and out, except under the handle inside the firing chamber, appears dark orange brown over the red slip. Slip has stained the glaze orange at the edges of the line. | |
Material: | Medium hard clay with white and gray inclusions. Chalk white fabric with white (5 YR 8/1) to pinkish white (5 YR 8/2). Smooth to slightly hackly and slightly conchoidal break.. | |
Munsell Color: | 5 YR 8/1 to 5 YR 8/2 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Five frgts., preserving about 1/3 of upper body and rim and most of the handle. | |
Manufacture: | C 67 | |
Weight Description: | 0.182 Kg | |
Weight: | 0.182 | |
Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
Chronology: | mid 10th century (Guy Sanders) | |
Area: | Agora southwest | |
Context: | Agora southwest | |
Bibliography: | Corinth 20, fig. 23.5:1, 2003; Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 576 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Agora southwest Basket: Agora southwest Notebook Page: NB 133, spread 86 (pp. 131 - 132) |