Corinth Object: CP 1081
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 1081
Title:   BYZANTINE SLIP-PAINTED PLATE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   1081
Description:   Plate with straight flaring body rising at ca. 30 degrees, vertical rim with convex profile. Decoration similar to C-1937-1092 a-c. Similar in shape to C-1934-620 (Corinth 11).
Decoration:   Slip-painted decoration on floor: large tondo with spiraliform motifs within circle; glaze applied directly to clay, doubly thick over half, making slipped part light green, rest greenish brown.
Material:   Moderately fine red-brown clay with scattered coarse to fine white and red-brown inclusions and very rare fine spherical voids.
Munsell Color:   Near 5YR 5/4
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of body, rim.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.108, W. 0.127
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   ?
Context:   , Provenance unknown
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 3146
Image: digital 2014 1474
Basket: , Provenance unknown