Corinth Object: C 1936 589
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)