Corinth Object: C 1937 1540
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1540
Title:   INCISED WARE PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1540
Description:   Plate with high vertical ring foot, rounded resting surface, groove on interior of foot. Flat undersurface. Shallow wide-flaring body rising at ca. 15 degrees with slight convex profile to squared lip with nicks.
Decoration:   White slip over all. Interior: central medallion of quartered design of incised lines, arranged at rt. angles to those of adjacent quarters; broadband ofincised hatches alternating with radiating wavy sgraffito lines; narrow bead band. Clear glaze on interior and over lip.
Material:   Moderately fine light brown to reddish clay with scattered coarse white inclusions, voids.
Munsell Color:   Near 5YR 5/6
Condition:   Complete profile. Nine joining frgts., 2/3 foot, ca. 1/3 body to lip except for large wedge; missing small part of floor.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   H00.046 D00.101 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.27 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB184 P67
    NB174 P67
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N1454
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum south central
Image: bw 4602
Basket: NB174 P67
Basket: NB184 P67
Notebook Page: NB 174, spread 39 (pp. 67 - 68)