Corinth Object: LOT 645:02
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   LOT 645:02
Title:   MEASLES DISH RIM
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   LOT
Object Number:   645
Description:   Dish with concave body and squared lip.
Decoration:   White slip over all. Pale yellow glaze inside and over lip. Inside incised decoration resembling tree branch with brown paint dots, or measles, within the branch. On rim are wide bands of brown paint close together.
Material:   Fine reddish yellow to light red clay, few medium rounded spherical brown to black inclusions, rare medium sub-rounded spherical white inclusions, rare large to very large angular spherical buff inclusions, rare medium voids.
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) to 2.5YR 6/6 (light red)
Condition:   Fragment. One fragment body and rim. Glaze missing on edges of rim and large chip in rim and several large chips outside.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H 0.046, W. 0.065, Th. 0.008
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. 0.250
Weight Description:   0.030
Weight:   0.030
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Area:   Forum
Context:   NB229 B14 P119, LOT 0645
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum
Basket: NB229 B14 P119