Corinth Object: C 1937 1103
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1103
Title:   BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED CHAFING DISH BOWL
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1103
Description:   Chafing dish with stand attached to bowl. Bowl has flat bottom, straight flaring body rising at ca. 60 degrees to tapered lip with flange on interior 0.006 m. below lip. Upper attachment for strap handle at base of body.
Decoration:   2 circumference grooves below lip on exterior. On interior, irregularly applied clear glaze over brown wash.
Material:   Moderately coarse hard-fired clay with scattered fine white, black inclusions; clay fired brown. Partly burned on bottom of bowl.
Munsell Color:   Slightly redder than 7.5YR 6/4
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., complete bowl profile from top of stand to rim, nearly half circumference; upper handle scar.
Manufacture:   C73
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.064
Dimensions Restored:   D00.23 (rim)
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   78 Middle to Late Byz.
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB163 P154
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB163 P154
Notebook Page: NB 163, spread 86 (pp. 154 - 155)