Corinth Object: C 1934 65 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | C 1934 65 | | Title: | | BYZANTINE INCISED SGRAFFITO PLATE | | Category Code: | | C | | Year: | | 1934 | | Object Number: | | 65 | | Description: | | Dish with vertical ring foot, flat undersurface. Shallow, widely flaring, convex body with upturned, tapered lip. Shallow bulge at centre. | | Decoration: | | Incised-Sgraffito, Intermediate Style, as Corinth XI, cat. no1491, fig.127. White slip all over. Interior: sgraffito bird at centre, with incised body, facing right. Incised floral spikes in field. Band of degenerate sgraffito Kufic just below lip. Yellow glaze inside to over lip outside. Graffito scratched on exterior body represents letter XM (roman numbers for 990?). | | Material: | | Phyllite A1 (no fresh break) | | Munsell Color: | | 2.5 YR 5/6 (red) | | Condition: | | Complete or intact. Six joining frgts., preserving almost complete foot, almost all body and two-third of lip. | | Manufacture: | | C 70 WM | | Dimensions Actual: | | H. 0.054, diam. foot 0.114, diam. lip 0.256 | | Weight Description: | | 0.801 | | Weight: | | 0.801 | | Period: | | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | | Chronology: | | ca. 1180- ca. 1225 (Sanders 2003, p. 393). | | Bibliography: | | Corinth XI, n. 1492 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Image: digital 2007 1143
Notebook Page: NB 142, spread 13 (pp. 16 - 17)
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