Corinth Object: C 1936 374a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 374a
Title:   BYZANTINE BROWN-GLAZED CHAFING DISH
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   374
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C-1936-374B (lapsed) C-1936-374C
Description:   Chafing dish with flaring body, rising at ca. 50 degrees with slight, concave profile to flattened lip, flange on interior 0.024 m. below lip. Broken below at juncture to stand. Just above break, upper attachment for vertical handle. Turning ridges on interior.
Decoration:   Brown drips of paint on exterior, interior brown glazed (or clear glaze over brown paint).
Material:   Coarse brown clay with scattered white, many fine to coarser black inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Paler than 7.5YR 6/4
Condition:   Fragment. Six joining frgts. giving full profile of bowl to rim, ca. half circumference. A-B joined.
Manufacture:   C73
Dimensions Actual:   D00.224 (rim)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.071
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine ? Coins early 12th c.
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB159 P320
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB159 P320