Corinth Object: C 1960 134a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1960 134a
Title:   PROTOMAIOLICA PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1960
Object Number:   134
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C-1960-134 B
Description:   Plate with low vertical ring foot with squared edges, convex body, flaring broad rim, rounded lip. Large groove on exterior between rim and body, and step on interior in the same position.
Decoration:   Yellowish glaze overall on interior and over the lip with drips. Painted deoration on interior: two brown lines underneath the lip and between rim and body, green oblique strokes on rim, scales brown motif on central floor with green dots. Remaining body adorned with brown lines and green spiral (?).
Material:   Moderatly fine clay with frequent tiny gray and black incusions shperical in shape, and few white tabular angular inclusions (bigger than the gray).
Munsell Color:   Core: between 7.5YR 8/6 (reddish yellow) and 7.5YR 8/4 (pink), surface: parts of it near 7.5YR 8/3 (pink), remaining parts like core.
Condition:   Four joining frgts preserving all of base, ca. 1/4 of foot, body, rim and lip. Glaze and painting well preserved.
Manufacture:   WM
Weight Description:   0.210
Weight:   0.210
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Bibliography:   34, Hesperia 1967#26; fig 1
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 1962 007 17