| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1936 846 | |
| Title: | BROWN-GREEN PAINTED PLATE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1936 | |
| Object Number: | 846 | |
| Description: | Plate with vertical ring foot, flat resting surface, convex undersurface. Shallow flaring body rising at ca. 20 degrees with slight convex profile to oblique squared lip. | |
| Decoration: | White slip over interior and lip, thin wash on whole exterior. Painted on interior: solid green circle with surrounding brown zigzag band in center floor. Body covered with band of concentric circles: green, brown, alternating with vertical wavy line, whole framed in wavy green bands. Brown stripe on lip. Clear glaze incompletely applied (?) so that largely only green stripes are lustrous. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish-tan clay with tiny white, red inclusions, voids, scattered coarser white. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slightly redder than 5YR 6/6 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Four joining frgts., complete profile; half foot, 1/3 body to lip. | |
| Manufacture: | C84 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.049 D00.091 (foot) | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.24 (lip) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine, coins to John II | |
| Area: | South Stoa middle | |
| Context: | NB161 P24 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N0497 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: South Stoa middle Basket: NB161 P24 Notebook Page: NB 161, spread 16 (pp. 23 - 24) |
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