Corinth Object: C 1937 859
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 859
Title:   MEASLES WARE PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   859
Description:   Plate with heavy vertical ring foot, oblique resting surface, flat undersurface. Body rises at ca. 30 degrees.
Decoration:   White slip on interior. Three concentric rings on floor, each brown dotted; four radiating petals with pointed tips, each with cross-band in center filled with line of dots. Yellow glaze on interior.
Material:   Moderately coarse clay fired buff at surfaces, pink through fabric, with numerous white, gray, and red inclusions and voids.
Munsell Color:   Near 10YR 7/4; paler than 2.5YR 6/6
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining frgts., preserving 3/4 foot and lower body.
Manufacture:   C81
Dimensions Actual:   Diam. 0.101 (foot)
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.031
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Area:   Forum northeast
Context:   NB167 P394
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum northeast
Image: digital 2014 1529
Basket: NB167 P394
Notebook Page: NB 167, spread 39 (pp. 393 - 394)