Corinth Object: C 1937 3012
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 3012
Title:   BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   3012
Description:   Plate with low vertical ring foot, flat resting surface, flat undersurface. Shallow, wide-flaring body with convex profile.
Decoration:   White slip on interior. Sgraffito decoration: central tondo: hare to rt. with erect ears extending beyond frame, round eye with long hook, on imbricate ground. Midway on body, broad band of coarsely incised pattern of half circles alternating with double bars on hatched background. Clear to yellowish glaze over interior. For style see Corinth XI pl. 45.
Material:   Moderately coarse buff clay, fired to pale pink at core, with frequent fine red, black, white inclusions, voids.
Munsell Color:   10YR 7.5/4
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., preserving 3/4 foot, floor, lower half of body.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   D00.113 (foot)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.041
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   Context mid 13th c.
Area:   South Stoa west
Context:   NB170 P66
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Stoa west
Image: bw 1997 018 14
Basket: NB170 P66