Corinth Object: C 1936 233
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 233
Title:   BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED CHAFING DISH: HANDLE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   233
Description:   Chafind dish with vertical handle, round in section.
Decoration:   Greenish-brown glaze all over. Plastic relief decoration on exterior, four large circles with smaller concentric circles. Similar to C-1936-961 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 29).
Material:   Coarse gray clay with rare small subrounded spherical and tabular white inclusions, and rare small rounded spherical voids.
Munsell Color:   10YR 5/1 (gray)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small part of handle.
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   based on comparanda
Area:   South Basilica
Context:   NB154 P156
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Basilica
Image: digital 2014 1317
Image: digital 2014 1318
Basket: NB154 P156
Notebook Page: NB 154, spread 86 (pp. 156 - 157)