Corinth Object: LOT 488:05
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   LOT 488:05
Title:   BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO PLATE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   LOT
Object Number:   488
Description:   Dish with slightly flaring ring foot with outer bevelled edge. Flat undersurface. Straight, flaring lower body.
Decoration:   Incised-Sgraffito, Free-Style, as Corinth XI, cat. no. 1558, pl. 51h. White slip all over. Gouged sgraffito warrior, facing right, hatless, with long curly hair, wearing doublet. Holds horizontal spear in right, left arm outstretched. Incised floral sprays and spikes in field. Pale yellow glaze inside. Similar to C-34-1568 (Corinth XI cat. no. 1508).
Material:   Phyllite A1
Munsell Color:   5 YR 5/8 (yellowish red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserves half foot and undersurface, one-fifth of lower body, missing rim.
Manufacture:   C 70 WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H.0.032, W. 0.129
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. foot 0.10
Weight Description:   0.116
Weight:   0.116
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Ca. 1160 - ca. 1200 (Sanders 2003, p. 393).
Area:   Forum
Context:   NB219 B1 P46
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum
Basket: NB219 B1 P46