Corinth Object: C 1937 865
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 865
Title:   SGRAFFITO PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   865
Description:   Plate with high, wide-flaring ring foot, rounded resting surface, flat undersurface. Shallow wide-flaring body rising at ca. 15 degrees to round lip.
Decoration:   White slip over all. On interior floor, central medallion with palmette on incised ground within a circle, this in turn framed by simple interlaced triangle on imbricate ground; narrow border of beads; narrow band of rinceau on incised ground, interrupted by medallions with palmette; broad outer band of rinceau on imbricate ground. Yellow glaze over interior, clear glaze out.
Material:   Moderately fine brown to reddish brown clay with scattered fine white inclusions, voids.
Munsell Color:   Between 5YR 5/4 and 2.5YR 5/4
Condition:   Complete profile. Six joining frgts., complete profile. Half foot, 1/4+ body to lip.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   H00.060 D00.123 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.237 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Area:   Forum northeast
Context:   NB167 P394
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N1463
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum northeast
Image: bw 4602
Basket: NB167 P394
Notebook Page: NB 167, spread 39 (pp. 393 - 394)