Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1937 11 | |
Title: | SGRAFFITO WARE PLATE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1937 | |
Object Number: | 11 | |
Description: | Plate with low ring foot and a broad flat undersurface, shallow body with horizontal walls, vertical curved rim, rounded lip. | |
Decoration: | Sgraffito decoration on interior: a bird profile and two floreal patterns. White slip inside and over the lip covered by a thick green glaze pale on the rim outside the plate, some drips beyond the slip. Similar to C-1937-1179 (Corinth XI, p.276, no.1103) | |
Material: | Medium reddish yellow clay with few very large white rounded inclusions, few spherical and platy rounded voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. Six joining frgts preserving 3/4 of foot, more than half of body and rim. Glaze well preserved. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Weight Description: | 0.467 | |
Weight: | 0.467 | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Area: | Forum northeast | |
Context: | NB165 P18 | |
Bibliography: | Corinth XI, p.276, no.1104 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Forum northeast Basket: NB165 P18 Notebook Page: NB 165, spread 19 (pp. 18 - 19) |