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 |