Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1933 815 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE SLIP-PAINTED PLATE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1933 | |
Object Number: | 815 | |
Description: | Plate with flaring ring foot, flat resting and undersurfaces. Body rising at ca. 35 degrees. Similar to C-1935-510. | |
Decoration: | Light slip-painted central medallion with formalized head and neck of bird to rt. with borders of simplified guilloche (1 narrow, 1 wide), start of wide rinceau. Glaze over all, light yellow-green on interior, green on exterior. Accoriding to Morgan, possible same hand as C-1933-689. | |
Material: | Moderately fine clay fired gray at core, red at edges with tiny white inclusions, rare voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 5/6 (red) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving ca. 1/2 foot, lower body. | |
Manufacture: | C80 | |
Dimensions Actual: | Diam. 0.08 (foot) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.047 | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | 11th c. | |
Area: | Forum southwest | |
Context: | NB133 P119 | |
Findspot Description: | Found 0.30m below stylobate. | |
Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 715 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum southwest Image: digital 2014 1499 Basket: NB133 P119 |