Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1936 1500 | |
Title: | INCISED WARE PLATE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1936 | |
Object Number: | 1500 | |
Description: | Plate with vertical ring foot, rounded resting surface, recessed nippled undersurface. Shallow wide-flaring body turning up slightly to oblique round lip. | |
Decoration: | White slip over all, thickly applied to interior. On interior, large wading bird with incised head, bill and body, sgraffito feathers and legs, walking to lt.; reserved circle for eye, feathered loops at top of legs. In field incised guilloche alternating with palm branch with incised stem, sgraffito fronds. Pale yellow glaze on interior and overlapping lip. | |
Material: | Moderately fine light red clay with frequent fine voids, fewer fine to medium red inclusions, fine white. | |
Munsell Color: | Slightly redder than 5YR 5/6 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., complete profile; half foot, 1/3 body to lip. | |
Manufacture: | C70 | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.051 D00.091 (foot) | |
Dimensions Restored: | D00.21-00.215 (lip) | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | 12th c. | |
Area: | South Stoa middle | |
Context: | NB152 P171 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | Corinth XI N1558; Corinth 20, 2003, p. 388, fig. 23.2 #17 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: South Stoa middle Basket: NB152 P171 Notebook Page: NB 152, spread 90 (pp. 170 - 171) |