Corinth Object: LOT 489:02
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   LOT 489:02
Title:   BYZANTINE SGRAFFITO PLATE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   LOT
Object Number:   489
Description:   Dish with low, false-ring foot. Widely flaring, outwardly convex body curving sharply up to vertical rim with tapered lip.
Decoration:   Sgraffito, Free-Style, as Corinth XI, cat. no.1558, pl. 51h . White slip inside, out and inside foot. Sgraffito leaf below rim, sourranded by floral spikes and wavy lines. Pale yellow glaze inside and outside. The glaze is thicker inside to over lip than outside and inside foot.
Material:   Phyllite A1
Munsell Color:   2.5 YR 5/6 (red) 2.5 YR 5/6 (red)
Condition:   Complete profile. 5 frgts preserve complete profile from rim to false ring foot. One-third of body preserved. Worn and crusted glaze.
Manufacture:   C 70
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.05
Dimensions Preserved:   W. 0.214
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. rim 0.23, diam. foot 0.13
Weight Description:   0.204
Weight:   0.204
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Ca. 1160 - ca. 1200 (Sanders 2003, p. 393).
Area:   Forum
Context:   NB219 B1 P50
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum
Basket: NB219 B1 P50