| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 1446 | |
| Title: | INCISED WARE PLATE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 1446 | |
| Description: | Plate with vertical ring foot, narrow rounded resting surface, rounded undersurface. Shallow wide-flaring body rising at ca. 20 degrees with slight convex profile to squared lip. | |
| Decoration: | Creamy slip over all. Incised on interior: in center, crude lion to rt., with outlined head, 2 short ears, incised neck and body, arching tail. No frame. Surrounded by radiating floral sprays, tips reaching lip, between which boxed pendant triangles. Green glaze on interior and overlapping lip. | |
| Material: | Coarse brown clay with scattered coarse white and fine sparkling inclusions, numerous coarse voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | Between 7.5YR 6/5 and 5YR 6/6 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Thirteen joining frgts., complete profile; ca. 1/2 foot, 3/4 body to lip. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.040-00.045 D00.090 (foot) D00.213 (lip) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 12th to early 13th c. ? | |
| Area: | Forum south central | |
| Context: | NB173 P50 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N1623 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum south central Basket: NB173 P50 Notebook Page: NB 173, spread 34 (pp. 50 - 51) |
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