| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1935 302 | |
| Title: | POLYCHROME CONSTANTINOPOLITAN WHITE WARE PLATE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1935 | |
| Object Number: | 302 | |
| Old Number: | C-1935-361 (lapsed) | |
| Description: | Plate with vertical ring foot, narrow round resting surface, flat undersurface. Body rising at roughly 30 degrees with slightly convex profile to everted rim with rounded lip. | |
| Decoration: | Type 1. Multiple pointed star in centre with roundels containing stylized birds separated by curvilinear motives, all in manganese, infilled with blue-green and yellowish brown inside. Manganese panelled decoration on rim with blue-green tongues on a yellowish brown background. Thick colorless glaze over all but undersurface. | |
| Material: | Medium to hard clay with granular break. Well defined firing horizonswith pink core ( Munsell 5 YR 8/4) to pink and white edges (Munsell 5 YR 8/1) | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Five joining frgts., nearly half foot, less than 1/4 body, lip. | |
| Manufacture: | C82 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.050 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.11 (foot) D00.31 (lip) | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 975/1000 to 1050/60 (Guy Sanders) | |
| Area: | Forum southeast | |
| Context: | NB147 P79 | |
| Provenance: | Constantinople | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N0307; Sanders 2001, fig.10.2, N008, pp. 91-92. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum southeast Image: digital 2019 1918 Basket: NB147 P79 Notebook Page: NB 147, spread 44 (pp. 78 - 79) |
|