Corinth Object: C 1936 166
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 166
Title:   PERSIAN FRIT PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   166
Description:   Plate with slightly flaring ring foot, flat resting and under surfaces. Body straight flaring at ca. 40 degrees to H00.045, then turns up more steeply to oblique outturned rim, flat on top with round lip.
Decoration:   Impressed on floor: medallion, quartered, in each a floral split palmette, separated by lines, central dot. Below rim rinceau. Clear glaze over interior, and exterior to above foot. Rest reserved.
Material:   Very sandy buff clay or porcelain
Condition:   Complete profile. Seven joining frgts., ca. half foot, quarter body and rim.
Manufacture:   C75
Dimensions Actual:   H00.074 D00.118 (foot)
Dimensions Restored:   D00.30 (rim)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byz.
Area:   South Stoa middle
Context:   NB152 P46
Provenance:   Persia ?
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Stoa middle
Image: digital 2013 0302
Image: digital 2013 0303
Basket: NB152 P46
Notebook Page: NB 152, spread 28 (pp. 46 - 47)