Corinth Object: C 1935 231
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)