| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1934 92 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE CHAMPLEVE PLATE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1934 | |
| Object Number: | 92 | |
| Description: | Plate with heavy vertical ring foot, flat resting and undersurface. Shallow wide-flaring body with slight convex profile. round lip. | |
| Decoration: | White slip thickly applied on interior and overlapping lip, thinly applied to exterior. Champleve decoration on interior: warrior, missing head, most of torso, lt. arm, lower lt. leg; directed rt.; wears doublet, hose and skirt, holding round-headed mace in rt. hand. Trace of long pointed shield filled with scale pattern to proper lt. Serpent-dragon with spotted head, long coils wrapping around circumference of plate; floral sprays in field; outer border: thin plain band, two beaded bands. Clear glaze over interior and overlapping lip. | |
| Material: | Semi-fine clay fired buff to tan on surface, with frequent small white, black inclusions, voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 7/3 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Twelve joining and one non-joining frgt., restored in plaster, giving complete profile, 3/4 plate. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.051 D00.093 (foot) D00.145 (lip) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | c. 1180-1200 (G. Sanders) | |
| Area: | Forum southeast South Stoa | |
| Context: | NB141 P124 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N1681 fig. 141. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum southeast South Stoa Image: bw 4436 Image: digital 2022 0342 Basket: NB141 P124 Notebook Page: NB 141, spread 54 (pp. 73 - 74) Notebook Page: NB 141, spread 84 (pp. 123 - 124) |
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