Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1935 165 | |
Title: | INCISED SGRAFFITO PLATE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1935 | |
Object Number: | 165 | |
Description: | Plate with low, flaring, ring foot, flat undersurface. Convex lower body. | |
Decoration: | White slip on inner surface. Green glaze on all vessel. Morgan's description: "Interior: in centre, lion, (fragmentary) with incised body, walks to right, turns head to left; leaf and double spiral motives in field" (Morgan 1942, p. 322, no. 1571). | |
Writing: | graffito. Incised simbol on the undersurface after firing, possible letter M. | |
Material: | Fine, hard fabric, reddish-yellow in colour, with few (0.25-0.5 mm) white-opaque, angular -spherical inclusions and rare (0.25-0.50 mm) rounded-spherical, black inclusions | |
Munsell Color: | 5 YR 5/8 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt preserves half base, one-tenth of lower body. Missing rim | |
Manufacture: | Wheel-made | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. p: 0.028 | |
Dimensions Restored: | Diam. foot: 0.10 | |
Weight Description: | 0.086 | |
Weight: | 0.086 | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | late 1t2th - 1st half 13th century | |
Area: | St. John's | |
Context: | NB150 P18 | |
Provenance: | Imported | |
Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, p. 322, no. 1571 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: St. John's Image: digital 2014 1980 Basket: NB150 P18 Notebook Page: NB 150, spread 13 (pp. 17 - 18) |