| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 1539 | |
| Title: | INTERMEDIATE-STYLE SGRAFFITO | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 1539 | |
| Description: | Plate with broad rudimentary foot, nearly horizontal body, thick vertical upturned rim, blunt lip. Floor convex in center. | |
| Decoration: | Incised decoration, interior: almost all of floor taken up by lion standing to rt., head turned back; missing hindquarters. Head, neck reserved with scales; body, legs incised. Protruding tongue. Floral lspikes, alternately incised and sgraffito, in field. Band of decadent Kufic on incised ground at edge of floor, interrupted by 3 small medallions with rectilinear split-palmettes. Slip and light green glaze over all, thinly applied to exterior. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish clay. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Ca. 18 joining frgts., complete profile. Missing 1/4 or less of floor, 1/4 of rim in two sections. | |
| Manufacture: | C70 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.041 D00.133 (foot) D00.222 (lip) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine. Coins to Manuel I (1143-80) | |
| Area: | Forum south central | |
| Context: | NB174 P67 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI P314 N1491 fig.126-127; Corinth 20, 2003, p. 388, fig. 23.2 #19 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum south central Image: bw 4435 Basket: NB174 P67 |
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