Corinth Object: C 1937 1359
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1359
Title:   INSCRIBED SGRAFFITO PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1359
Description:   Plate with shallow wide-flaring body.
Decoration:   White slip over all. Interior, head and coil of serpent facing rt. on field partly filled with fragmentary inscription. Band of Kufic. Pale yellow glaze on interior and upper half of exterior.
Writing:   inscribed. Inscribed on background, ech[--]/to qh[rion]/skotov
Material:   Moderately fine pinkish-tan clay with numerous tiny red, brown inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Redder than 5YR 7/6
Condition:   Fragment. Single body frgt. broken all around.
Manufacture:   C70
Dimensions Preserved:   MPDim00.062
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Area:   South Stoa west
Context:   NB170 P142
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0967
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: South Stoa west
Image: bw 4538
Basket: NB170 P142