| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 2003 47a | |
| Title: | WEST SLOPE WARE PLATE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 2003 | |
| Object Number: | 47 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Related Objects: | C 2003 047B | |
| Description: | Plate with flaring ring foot, flat resting surface, slightly convex flaring walls, flaring rim with squared lip. Similar to Agora XXIX, no. 828. | |
| Decoration: | Black glaze over all interior and exterior; on interior scraped groove around medallion and double scraped groove along edge of rim; on medallion, in center of floor incised star surrounded by pairs of painted antithetical leaping dolphins suspended from scraped groove; each pair of dolphins spaced by dot rosettes, of which only imprint is now preserved; suspended from groove around rim alternating incised double hoops and painted leaves; imprint of painted dots within hoops. For leaping dolphins, see Agora XXIX, no. 831, 834; for hoops see Agora XXIX, no. 212; for all motifs, except star, on a kantharos, see Agora XXIX, no. 252. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with rare small black inclusions, rare sparkling inclusions, and rare voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/4 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment, 1/3 base, 1/3 body. 1/3 lip. Glaze well-preserved on interior, flaking on lip and exterior. | |
| Manufacture: | C25 WM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.026 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | Diam. or rim 00.15, Diam. of foot 0.07 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.040 | |
| Weight: | 0.040 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | Second half of 3rd c. B. C. or first half of 2nd c. B. C. | |
| Area: | Panaghia south | |
| Context: | NB959 B61 P152, LOT 2003 083 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 2003 021 05a Image: digital 2004 0311 Basket: NB959 B61 P152 |
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