Corinth Object: C 1935 253
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1935 253
Title:   DARK-ON-LIGHT SLIP-PAINTED WARE PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1935
Object Number:   253
Description:   Plate with vertical ring foot, flaring at flat resting surface, flat undersurface. Convex body rising at 30 degrees. Similar to C-1938-114 (Corinth 11).
Decoration:   Interior: white slip, brown slip painting: two points of central star with petals alternately outlined and solid, two circumference bands; on upper body, spiral border above two bands. Pale yellow glaze interior, greenish glaze exterior.
Material:   Fine brown clay with three black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Between 2.5YR 5/6 and 5YR 5/6
7.5YR 7/2 (pinkish gray)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving 1/4 foot, most of body profile.
Manufacture:   C79
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Area:   St. John's
Context:   NB150 P103
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: St. John's
Image: digital 2014 1434
Basket: NB150 P103
Notebook Page: NB 150, spread 56 (pp. 103 - 104)