Corinth Object: C 1938 279a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 279a
Title:   INCISED WARE PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   279
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C-1938-279B-F
Description:   Plate with flaring rin foot, flattened resting surface, flat undersurface. Shallow wide-flaring body with convex profile, squared lip.
Decoration:   White slip over all. Incised on floor: medallion with radiating spokes, each section filled with horizontal lines; band of vertical bars and dots; on mid floor, band of vertical bars, broken by small medallions with small palmette on incised ground; broad outer band of vertical lines, alternatly hatched and plain, between double framing lines. Clear to pale yellow glaze over all.
Material:   Moderately fine light reddish-tan clay with few coarse red inclusions, voids.
Condition:   Complete profile. Three joining frgts., complete profile except for center of floor, ca. 1/8 vessel. RIP with A-C,E-F.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Actual:   H00.054
Dimensions Restored:   D00.09-00.10 (foot) D00.25-00.26 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late 12th or early 13th c. ?
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB175 P59
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB175 P59