Corinth Object: LOT 488:09
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   LOT 488:09
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.
Decoration:   Incised-Sgraffito (Medallion-Style), as Corinth XI, cat. no. 1436, fig. 125. Bluish gray (6/5PB) slip inside to over rim. Gouged sgraffito band infilled with hatches. Below rim, narrow band framed by double circles, infilled with alternated gouged sgraffito hatches and stylized Kufic. Pale greenish yellow glaze all over.
Material:   Phyllite A1 overcooked?
Munsell Color:   2.5 Y 6/3 (light yellowish brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt preserves one-seventh of rim and upper body, missing lower body and foot. Worn glaze outside.
Manufacture:   C 70 WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.03, w. 0.078
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. 0.22
Weight Description:   0.049
Weight:   0.049
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