Collection: | | Corinth |
Type: | | Object |
Name: | | KV 522 |
Title: | | MINIATURE PLATE |
Category: | | Pottery |
Category Code: | | KV |
Object Number: | | 522 |
Description: | | Miniature plate with disc foot with flat undersurface, straight flaring walls and rounded lip. |
Decoration: | | String marks on foot. Black glaze over all, misfired red in many places. |
Material: | | Fine pale pink clay with rare very fine inclusion and rare fine voids |
Munsell Color: | | 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) to 10YR 8/4 (very pale brown) |
Condition: | | Complete or intact. Complete. Glaze flaking. |
Manufacture: | | WM |
Period: | | 4th c. B.C. |
Chronology: | | Middle or 3rd quarter of the 4th century (Stillwell 1948, Corinth 15.1, p. 43) |
Provenance: | | Corinth |
Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. Terracotta Factory. East Room. Deposit 6. (N.B. Benson confused Deposits 5 and 6 in Corinth 15.3, but notebook context and earlier publications make it clear that this is Deposit 6--K. Harrington 30/6/2021). |
Bibliography: | | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1929 |
Site: | | Corinth |
City: | | Ancient Corinth |
Country: | | Greece |