Corinth Object: C 1934 315
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 315
Title:   BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED CHAFING DISH
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   315
Description:   Chafing dish with oopen bowl with broken stand, round bottom, flaring profile, rim in two degrees with inward sloping lip. Four vertical lug handles at rim.
Decoration:   Incised zigzag cross on floor, zigzag circumference lin on lower interior wall, two zigzag lines on exterior of stepped rim between lug handles. Brown glaze on inside and overlapping rim.
Material:   Red coarse clay with numerous white inclusions and voids, fired to gray in places.
Munsell Color:   2.5YR 5/6
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., complete bowl; missing stand.
Manufacture:   C73
Dimensions Actual:   D00.157 (rim)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.077
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   Third q. 10th c. (G. Sanders)
Area:   Forum southwest
Context:   NB149 P149
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0004 fig. 157
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum southwest
Image: bw 4524
Image: digital 2007 1066
Basket: NB149 P149
Notebook Page: NB 144, spread 80 (pp. 149 - 150)