Corinth Object: LOT 488:08
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   LOT 488:08
Title:   BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO PLATE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   LOT
Object Number:   488
Description:   Dish with horizontal body curving sharply up to straight, slightly flaring rim, with tapered lip. Radiating wavy impressions on horizontal body outside.
Decoration:   Incised-Sgraffito, Free-Style, as Corinth XI, cat. no. 1558, pl. 51h. Pale pink slip all over, thinner below lip and on body outside. Gouged sgraffito double arches (shield?). Floral spike in field. Pale greenish yellow glaze inside to over lip, thinner on body outside.
Material:   Phyllite A2
Munsell Color:   2.5 YR 5/6 (red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserves one-eighth of rim and one- twentieth of upper body, missing lower body and foot.
Manufacture:   C 70 WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.037, W. 0.071
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. 0.22
Weight Description:   0.041
Weight:   0.041
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