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 |