Corinth Object: LOT 488:10
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   LOT 488:10
Title:   BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO PLATE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   LOT
Object Number:   488
Description:   Dish with low, vertical ring foot and slightly convex undersurface. Shallow bulge at centre. Widely flaring body.
Decoration:   Incised-Sgraffito (Medallion-Style), as Corinth XI, cat. no. 1436, fig. 125. White slip inside. At centre medallion with palmette on incised ground, surrounded by a band, framed double circles, infilled with alternated gouged sgraffito hatches and stylized Kufic. Pale yellow glaze inside. Unslipped and unglazed outside.
Material:   Clay Temper A3
Munsell Color:   7.5 YR 7/4 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt present almost complete foot and complete udersurface. Missing body.
Manufacture:   C 70 WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.02, W. 0.081
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. foot 0.073
Weight Description:   0.065
Weight:   0.065
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