Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1937 72 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE WHITE WARE CHAFING DISH WITH RELIEF | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1937 | |
Object Number: | 72 | |
Description: | Chafing dish with nearly cylindrical stand, widening slightly to round lip. On interior, deep bowl rises to horizontal ledge, set below lip, and overhanging interior. | |
Decoration: | Large frontal animal head with pointed ears, plastic disks for eyes with concentric rings, round nose with pierced nostrils, leering mouth, extended tongue. Thin neck below. Streaky glaze mottled yellow to green to brown over all. | |
Material: | Dense white clay fired to pale pink where thick. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving rim | |
Manufacture: | C67 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.058 | |
Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
Chronology: | 10-11th c. | |
Area: | Forum northeast | |
Context: | NB165 P63 | |
Provenance: | Constantinople | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Forum northeast Image: digital 2014 2314 Image: digital 2014 2315 Basket: NB165 P63 Notebook Page: NB 165, spread 41 (pp. 62 - 63) |