Corinth Object: C 1933 515
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1933 515
Title:   BYZANTINE MEASLES WARE PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1933
Object Number:   515
Description:   Plate with straight flaring body curving up to horizontal rim with squared lip.
Decoration:   White slip on inner surface to over rim. Sgraffito concentric bands decorated with red slip painted tos. Colourless overglaze on inner surface to rim.
Material:   Fine, light red fabric with few angular, spherical white inclusions and rare angular, spherical red inclusions.
Munsell Color:   10 R 6/6 (light red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving 1/20 body and rim; missing base.
Manufacture:   Wheel-made
Dimensions Preserved:   H: 0.046
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. rim: 0.16
Weight Description:   0.044
Weight:   0.044
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   12th century (Sanders 2003)
Area:   Forum southeast
Context:   NB135 P29
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum southeast
Image: digital 2014 1639
Basket: NB135 P29
Notebook Page: NB 133, spread 78 (pp. 117 - 118)
Notebook Page: NB 135, spread 17 (pp. 24 - 25)
Notebook Page: NB 135, spread 19 (pp. 28 - 29)