| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 1826 | |
| Title: | BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED CUP OR CHAFING DISH | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 1826 | |
| Description: | Byzantine brown-glazed chafing dish or cup (?) with shallow body, conical stand or stem, inward thickened rim, rounded lip; rim offset on interior by ledge. Similar to C-1934-479 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 5). | |
| Decoration: | Greenish-brown glaze on exterior, and glaze on interior rim. | |
| Material: | Light brown clay blackened in firing, with few small and medium rounded spherical white and gray inclusions, and frequent rounded spherical and angular platy voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | Near 7.5 YR 6/4 (light brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small part of body and stand, approx. 1/4 rim. Traces of glaze on interior rim. | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | based on comparanda | |
| Area: | Agora south central | |
| Context: | NB173 P173 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Agora south central Image: digital 2014 1341 |
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