| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | CP 939 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED CHAFING DISH WITH RELIEF | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | CP | |
| Object Number: | 939 | |
| Description: | Chafing dish with cylindrical stand, widening to flaring lip. On interior, deep bowl attached to top of stand, ending in horizontal flange. Body of stand has cut-outs, in form of wide- and narrow-spaced vertical slots. Similar to C-1936-501 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 8). | |
| Decoration: | Relief decoration: flute player, facing front, wearing short pointed cap, disk eyes, holding long flute obliquely across mouth, with rt. Hand from below, lt. over top; flanked by monstrous heads, one with goat horns. Thick brown glaze inside and out. Similar to C-1936-503A (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 12). | |
| Material: | Moderately fine light red-brown clay with fine sand, scattered white, red inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slightly redder than 5YR 5.5/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper part of stand, bowl, to rim. | |
| Manufacture: | C73 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.082 (max) | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Context: | , Provenance unknown | |
| Bibliography: | Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 15 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Image: bw 3211 Image: digital 2014 2325 Basket: , Provenance unknown |
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