| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1934 1462 | |
| Title: | SGRAFFITO PLATE WITH WARRIOR | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1934 | |
| Object Number: | 1462 | |
| Old Number: | C-1934-1429 (lapsed) | |
| Description: | Plate or bowl with low flaring ring foot, flat resting surface, irregularly trimmed on interior, flat undersurface; body rises at 45 degrees. | |
| Decoration: | White slip over all. Incised on interior, warrior, preserved from head to top of legs, directed lt., with long curly hair, circle for eye, pointed nose, 2 slits for mouth; arms extended forward with cross-hatched sphere between hands; sleeves hatched, cuirass heavily incised with central vertical line and horizontal bars to either side, lappets. Claws of bird just above rt. arm, floral spray in field to lt., heavily incised lines extending back from waist. Pale yellow glaze on interior. | |
| Material: | Moderately fine reddish brown clay with tiny white inclusions, coarse voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | Between 5YR 5/6 and 2.5YR 5/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Originally, single frgt., nearly complete foot, floor, start of body. Additional join, two frgts. in all, completing foot, floor; lower body. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.095 (foot) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.044 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 12th c. ? Coins to Manuel I (1143-80) | |
| Area: | Agora southwest | |
| Context: | NB144 P91 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N1568 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Agora southwest Image: bw 4432 Image: digital 2014 1974 Basket: NB144 P91 Notebook Page: NB 144, spread 51 (pp. 91 - 92) |
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