| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 12 | |
| Title: | BROWN-GLAZED CHAFING DISH WITH RELIEF | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 12 | |
| Description: | Chafing dish with cylindrical stand, nearly vertical rim, offset by heavy fillet, round lip. Top of deep bowl attached to interior, ending in horizontal overhanging flange. Open-work cut-outs on stand. | |
| Decoration: | Remains of plastic decoration on body: probable frontal animal head, now broken away, below rim, with two erect ears; to rt., large flat mass of hair/mane, its surface covered with incisions.To lt., ear of second animal. Incision on fillet. Brown glaze over all. | |
| Material: | Fine red clay with tiny sparkling inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Redder than 2.5YR 6/7 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining frgts., upper part of stand, ca. 1/5 circumference of rim. | |
| Manufacture: | C73 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.078 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.15 (rim) | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 78 Middle to Late Byz. | |
| Area: | Forum northeast | |
| Context: | NB165 P18 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum northeast Image: digital 2014 2375 Basket: NB165 P18 |
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