Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1937 62 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE POLYCHROME PLATE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1937 | |
Object Number: | 62 | |
Description: | Plate with low flaring foot, rather deep body. | |
Decoration: | Interior: large medallion within yellow border of man, frontal, with hands raised in prayer, wearing yellow turban and short blue-green tunic with full sleeves and short inset white panel below neck, and purple stockings. On either side of figure, painted inscription. Outlines and inscription in manganese. No exterior glaze. | |
Writing: | dipinto. ΠΟΛΑ ΤΑ ΕΤΗ ΤΟΝ ΚΕΡΑΤΑΔΟΝ | |
Material: | Coarse pinkish-white clay. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment. Foot and floor. | |
Dimensions Actual: | Diam. of foot 0.092 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | W. 0.108 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Chronology: | Coins found with this ware points to a date in the 12th c. but there is as yet an insufficient quantity of material on which to base a sound date for it. (Corinth XI p69 n369) | |
Area: | Forum northeast | |
Context: | NB165 P96 | |
Bibliography: | Morgan II, 1942, Corinth XI, P68,P211 N 369 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Forum northeast Basket: NB165 P96 Notebook Page: NB 165, spread 58 (pp. 96 - 97) |