Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1934 890 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE MEASLES WARE DISH | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1934 | |
Object Number: | 890 | |
Description: | Dish or bowl (?) with shallow body, curving out to high flaring rim, vertical rounded lip. | |
Decoration: | Slip on interior and exterior upper rim; light yellow glaze all over. Large eagle facing right, open wing project forward. Short vertical strokes on lip. Similar to C-1936-311. | |
Material: | Coarse reddish yellow clay with few rounded spherical and tabular white and gray inclusions, and common rounded and subrounded spherical and angular platy voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving approx. 1/6 of body to rim. | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | Based on Morgan 1942, Corinth 11. | |
Area: | Agora southwest | |
Context: | NB143 P33 | |
Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 688 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Agora southwest Image: digital 2014 1549 Notebook Page: NB 143, spread 22 (pp. 33 - 34) |