Corinth Object: C 1937 1961 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | C 1937 1961 | | Title: | | BYZANTINE GREEN-GLAZED IMPRESSED PLATE | | Category Code: | | C | | Year: | | 1937 | | Object Number: | | 1961 | | Description: | | Deep plate or bowl with straight flaring profile rising at ca. 45 degrees to narrow rim, articulated on interior by raised lip surrounding interior of plate. Turning ridges apparent on interior, exterior partly pared. | | Decoration: | | Large indistinct relief motive in centre inside. Thick glossy, mottled green glaze inside to over lip stained by dark orange streaks where iron-rich clay inclusions exposed on surface of biscuit. Plain outside. | | Attributes: | | C68 | | Material: | | White clay with numerous fine to coarser black inclusions, fewer red. | | Munsell Color: | | 7.5 YR 8/2 | | Condition: | | Fragment. Six joining frgts., upper half body to rim, ca. 1/8 or less of circumference. | | Manufacture: | | Edge of impressed to | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.088 (true) | | Dimensions Restored: | | D00.33 (rim) | | Period: | | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | | Chronology: | | Context to late 11th-early 12th c. | | Area: | | Forum south | | Context: | | NB174 P93 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Forum south
Basket: NB174 P93
Notebook Page: NB 174, spread 52 (pp. 93 - 94)
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