Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1930 17 | |
Title: | SGRAFFITO PLATE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1930 | |
Object Number: | 17 | |
Description: | Plate with flaring ring foot with thick resting surface. Shallow, straight flaring body, round to flattened oblique lip. | |
Decoration: | Sgraffito decoration on interior: central medallion of formalized bird to rt.; hooked beak, dashes on neck, belly to tail; scribbled covert feathers, parallel lines for flight feathers. In field running spiral palmettes; on upper body, broad band of running slip-palmettes between double framing lines. Lip plain. White slip. Pale greenish-yellow glaze on interior and overlapping lip. | |
Material: | Fine reddish clay. | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Many joining frgts., complete profile. Complete except for five small holes in lip, one near floor. | |
Manufacture: | C70 | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.081 D00.126 (foot) D00.33 (max) | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | Context second half 12th c. ? c. 1160-80 (GS) | |
Area: | New Hotel Byzantine Ephoreia | |
Context: | NB115 P61 | |
Bibliography: | Corinth XI P264 N0965 (as C-1930-16) | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: New Hotel Byzantine Ephoreia Image: bw 2735 Basket: NB115 P61 |