Corinth Object: C 1936 996
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 996
Title:   LIGHT/DARK SLIP-PAINTED PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   996
Description:   Plate with shallow convex body, turning up vertically, then out to horizontal outturned rim flaring lip.
Decoration:   Painted in white slip on interior: band of guilloche, narrow band of simple linked circles; broad band of linked, boxed diamonds, framed by boxed triangles, 2nd band of linked circles; on rim normal and simplified guilloche bands. Lemon yellow glaze inside to mid-rim, thicj green glaze on outer rim and outside.
Material:   Moderately coarse pale pink clay with frequent fine to small black, red inclusions. Granular, conchoidal slightly hackly break with occasional laminar voids
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 6/4
Condition:   Fragment. Five joining frgts preserve about 1/3 of vessel including 1/4 of rim and body.., complete body profile from just above foot to rim, ca. 1/3 circumference.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.046
Dimensions Restored:   D00.30 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   late 11th-early 12th century (Guy Sanders).
Area:   South Stoa middle
Context:   NB152 P92
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0706; Corinth 20, fig. 23.4:6, 2003.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: South Stoa middle
Basket: NB152 P92
Notebook Page: NB 152, spread 51 (pp. 92 - 93)