Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1936 589 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE GREEN-BROWN PAINTED PLATE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1936 | |
Object Number: | 589 | |
Description: | Plate with flaring ring foot, round to beveled resting surface, nippled undersurface. Flaring body with slight convex curve, rising at ca. 30 degrees to sharply upturned vertical rim H00.030, tapered lip. | |
Decoration: | White slip inside, and over exterior of rim. Scribbled green painted motifs on floor, partly outlined in brown. Broad green stripe at base of rim, between 2 brown lines, green stripe on lip. Incompletely applied clear glaze, now adhering only to green paint. | |
Material: | Moderately fine buff clay with abundant white inclusions, some voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/4 | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Six joining frgts., complete profile; complete foot, ca. 1/4 body, 1/8 rim. | |
Manufacture: | C84 | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.095 D00.095 (foot) | |
Dimensions Restored: | D00.25 (lip) | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | Late Byzantine | |
Area: | St. John's | |
Context: | NB169 P233 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | Corinth XI N0504 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: St. John's Basket: NB169 P233 Notebook Page: NB 169, spread 22 (pp. 233 - 234) |