Corinth Object: C 1937 1937
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1937
Title:   BYZANTINE IMPRESSED WHITE WARE PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1937
Description:   Large plate or bowl with flaring ring foot, rounded resting surface, convex undersurface. Start of wide flaring body.
Decoration:   Impressed on floor: central medallion: small central circle with unintelligible motif, surrounded by 4 sets of concentric arcs; whole framed byzigzag border. Yellow to pale green glaze on interior.
Material:   Fine hard clay fired white at core, pale grayish-pink at surface with numerous tiny black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   5YR 8/4
Condition:   Fragment. 12 joining frgts., 9/10 foot, nearly all floor. Burning on breaks.
Manufacture:   C67
Dimensions Actual:   D00.150 (foot)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.030
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine ? Coins to Manuel I
Area:   Forum north
Context:   NB172 P18
Provenance:   Constantinople
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0105
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum north
Basket: NB172 P18
Notebook Page: NB 172, spread 20 (pp. 18 - 19)