| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1933 566a | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED CHAFING DISH | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1933 | |
| Object Number: | 566 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | C-1933-566B | |
| Description: | Chafing dish with straight flaring body, inturned rim offset by protruding ledge on interior, rounded lip. Broken off below at juncture with stand. Start of vertical strap handle. Similar to C-1936-426 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 6). | |
| Decoration: | Brown glaze on interior. Below rim on exterior, drips of glaze and three shallow grooves. | |
| Material: | Coarse light red clay with small to large rounded spherical and tabular frequent white and few gray inclusions. Common small and medium angular platy and tabular and rounded spherical voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5YR 6/8 (light red) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small part of upper body to lip, stump of handle. | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | based on comparanda | |
| Area: | Forum southeast | |
| Context: | NB135 P54 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum southeast Image: digital 2014 1303 Basket: NB135 P54 |
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