| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1937 722 | |
| Title: | IMPRESSED CONSTANTINOPOLITAN WHITE WARE PLATE | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1937 | |
| Object Number: | 722 | |
| Description: | Plate with slightly flaring ring foot, rounded resting surface, rounded undersurface. Small body with slight convex-to-concave profile, ending in oblique inward thickened rim with thick round lip and raised ridge surrounding interior of plate. | |
| Decoration: | Large, relief winged dragon in centre inside (similar to Corinth XI N0095). Red slip painted festoon below rim inside. Thin, red iron oxide wash on rim inside and out. Thick glossy yellow greenish glaze inside and out to foot is stained dark orange by wash, slip and iron rich clay inclusions exposed on the surface of the biscuit. | |
| Material: | Medium hard with white, red and gray inclusions. Smooth to slightly hackly and slightly conchoidal break. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Two joining frgts., complete profile and foot, ca. 1/3 of the body and 1/8 body to rim. | |
| Manufacture: | C68 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.042 D00.078 (foot) | |
| Dimensions Restored: | D00.18 (rim) | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | ? Middle Byzantine ? Context end 13th c. | |
| Area: | Forum northeast | |
| Context: | NB165 P164 | |
| Provenance: | Constantinople | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XI N0095 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942 Monument: Forum northeast Basket: NB165 P164 Notebook Page: NB 165, spread 92 (pp. 164 - 165) |
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