Corinth Object: LOT 488:14
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   LOT 488:14
Title:   BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO PLATE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   LOT
Object Number:   488
Description:   Dish with straight, widely flaring body with rounded lip.
Decoration:   Sgraffito, as Corinth XI cat. no. 1103, fig. 104 b.. White slip inside to over lip. Open sgraffito chevron band in field, on upper body. Broad sgraffito band, framed by double lines, infilled with hatch marks, below lip. Colorless glaze inside to over lip outside. Unslipped and unglazed outside.
Material:   Phyllite A1
Munsell Color:   5 YR 5/6 (yellowish red)
Condition:   Fragment. Three joining frgts preserve one-eighth of lip and body. Missing centre and foot. Badly worn glaze.
Manufacture:   C 70 WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.045, W. 0.117
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. 0.29
Weight Description:   0.108
Weight:   0.108
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