Corinth Object: C 1937 399A
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 399A
Title:   PROTOMAIOLICA PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   399
Object Suffix:   A
Related Objects:   Joins C-1937-399B
Description:   Plate with low torus ring foot, convex body, broad flaring rim, rounded lip.
Decoration:   Exterior: slip. Painted decoration on interior: leaves and tree-shape patterns outlined in black decorated in ochre and blue stripes, same colors on rim adorn a kind of twist. White glaze inside.
Material:   Fine pale yellow clay with rare small spherical rounded red inclusions.
Munsell Color:   2.5YR 8/2 (pale yellow)
Condition:   Complete profile. Numerous joining frgts. (joining in parts A and B) preserving all of foot, almost all of body (and B: 1/5 of rim and lip). Restored in plaster.
Manufacture:   WM
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.075, Diam. 0.081 (foot)
Weight Description:   0.342 with plaster
Weight:   0.342
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Area:   St. John's
Context:   NB169 P316
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: St. John's
Image: digital 2015 1309
Image: digital 2015 1310
Image: digital 2015 1332
Basket: NB169 P316