| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1934 54 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE CHAMPLEVE PLATE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1934 | |
| Object Number: | 54 | |
| Description: | Plate with vertical ring foot, unevenly trimmed, flat resting surface, flat recessed undersurface.Shallow convex body rising at ca. 15-20 degrees to oblique squared lip. | |
| Decoration: | White slip thickly applied over interior and lip, thinly washed on exterior. Champleve medallion covers most of floor: man sits on folding stool, facing 3/4 rt., holding woman on lap with rt. hand. Has long curling locks, large round eyes with arcabove and below, line on forehead, hook for nose,tiny mouth; arm and legs bare, feet extend beyondmedallion to outer border, as do stool legs. Womandirected 3/4 lt., faces front, wears stephane, 4spirals of curling locks, similar features with 2furrows; garment plain to hips, pleated skirt. Her lt. hand turned up by breast In field, running hare,triangular ornaments. Single framing band;background scraped away; outer border plain.Light yellow glaze overall, making ground red.Compass point in center of floor. | |
| Mythology: | Digenes Akritas ? | |
| Material: | Dark red-brown clay with tiny white, red-brown inclusions.scattered coarse white inclusions, voids | |
| Munsell Color: | Slightly yellower than 2.5YR 5/6 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Eight joining frgts, complete profile; missing ca. 1/10 foot, 1/4 body to lip; two holes through floor, one in mid-body. Glaze on lip partly chipped. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.045 D00.111 (foot) D00.253 (lip) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine c. 1200-1230 (GS) | |
| Area: | South Basilica | |
| Context: | NB142 P15 | |
| Bibliography: | AJA 1935 P076 Fig. 1; Byzantion XV, 1941, P090-1; Corinth XI N1685; Tomobe, Ceramic Art of World v. 22, p. 157, fig. 33. Megaw in World Ceramics (ed. Charleston) 1968, p. 105, fig. 313; Darkevich, Svetskoi iskusstvo, 1975, pp. 253-4, fig. 374; Greeks and | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: South Basilica Images (4) Basket: NB142 P15 Notebook Page: NB 142, spread 12 (pp. 14 - 15) |
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