Corinth Object: LOT 488:06
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   LOT 488:06
Title:   BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO PLATE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   LOT
Object Number:   488
Description:   Dish with false ring foot and horizontal body curving sharply up to vertical rim with tapered lip.
Decoration:   Incised-Sgraffito, Free-Style, as Corinth XI, cat. no. 1558, pl. 51h. White slip all over, thinner below lip and on body outside. Gouged sgraffito vegetable scrollwork and floral spike. Pale yellow glaze all over.
Material:   Phyllite A1
Munsell Color:   2.5 YR 5/6 (red)
Condition:   Complete profile. Four joining frgts, complete from rim to foot, one-third of foot, one-sixth of body and one-fifth of rim.
Manufacture:   C 70 WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.042, W. 0.132
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. rim 0.24, diam. foot 0.13
Weight Description:   0.153
Weight:   0.153
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