| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 1239 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE CHAFING DISH | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 1239 | |
| Description: | Conical stand with straight flaring walls joining dish near bottom. Flaring slightly convex dish wall to plain rim with rounded lip. Rim offset inside with by thickened ridge for a lid. Wheel-ridged inside with flat, slightly convex bottom. Vertical strap handles attach at mid-body and lower body. Two circular ventiliation holes 0.015 in diameter pushed through from exterior. | |
| Decoration: | Dark, matt-gray (Munsell 5 YR 5/1) slip dribbled down exterior and visible on interior where glazed. Thin, olive-yellow glaze inside to lip appears olive brown on fabric. Glaze spalling where white inclusions in fabric but also blistered. Inside unglazed in patches.Sprinkled glaze. | |
| Material: | Medium Hard pink (Munsell 7.5 YR 7/4) clay . Smooth conchoidal with black and white inclusions. This individual has a reddish yellow core (Munsel 5 YR 6/6). | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5 YR 7/4 | |
| Manufacture: | C73 | |
| Weight Description: | 1.140 | |
| Weight: | 1.140 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 11th century (Guy Sanders) | |
| Area: | Agora south central | |
| Context: | Agora south central | |
| Provenance: | local | |
| Findspot Description: | Pit at N-0: 21-23. Deposit Index Pit 1937-1. | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI 0002, Corinth 20, footnote 7, pp. 386, 2003. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Agora south central Basket: Agora south central |
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