Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | C 1935 231 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE MEASLES WARE PLATE | |
Category Code: | C | |
Year: | 1935 | |
Object Number: | 231 | |
Description: | Plate with low vertical foot, rounded resting surface and undersurface, flaring convex body. | |
Decoration: | Slip and pale yellow glaze on interior. Set of three (originally four?) ovals around center, with double outline, filled with dots. Similar to C-1934-1327 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 654). | |
Material: | Reddish-yellow clay with frequent small rounded spherical and tabular red and gray inclusions, and frequent small and medium ronded spherical and angular platy voids. | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving approx. 3/4 of foot, floor, and small part of lower body. | |
Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
Chronology: | Based on comparanda | |
Area: | St. John's | |
Context: | NB150 P93 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: St. John's Image: digital 2014 1561 Basket: NB150 P93 Notebook Page: NB 150, spread 51 (pp. 93 - 94) |