Corinth Object: C 1934 620
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1934 620
Title:   BYZANTINE SLIP-PAINTED PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1934
Object Number:   620
Description:   Plate with vertical ring foot with rounded resting surface trimmed back from rest of foot. Inner face curves into flat undersurface. Body rises at ca. 35 degrees with slight convex profile. Similar to CP-1081.
Decoration:   In light slip on interior, in center, running spiral, then broad band of curving zigzag with spiral filler between circumference lines. White slip on exterior. Green glaze on interior making ground olive-green.
Material:   Moderately fine clay fired reddish-brown with tiny white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Ca. between 2.5YR 5/4 (reddish brown) and 2.5YR 5/6 (red)
Condition:   Fragment. Three joining frgts. preserving 1/8 foot, body to upper body.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.050
Dimensions Restored:   D00.13 (foot)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   12th c.
Area:   Forum southeast
Context:   NB149 P73
    NB139 P73
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0748
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Forum southeast
Image: digital 2014 1508
Basket: NB139 P73
Notebook Page: NB 139, spread 43 (p. 73)
Notebook Page: NB 141, spread 52 (pp. 69 - 70)