Corinth Object: C 1936 401
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1936 401
Title:   DARK-ON-LIGHT SLIP-PAINTED PLATE
    BYZANTINE PAINTED WARE PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1936
Object Number:   401
Description:   Plate with very shallow wide-flaring body, upturned vertical rim, outward thickened horizontal rim.
    Plate with straight slightly flaring walls, nearly vertical rim, outward thickened rim, flaring squared lip. Similar to C-1933-23.
Decoration:   Unevenly applied slip inside, and over rim. Interior, from missing central medallion thin lines curving up to rim forming pointed arches, within and between which are small pointed palmettes; band below lip; bars on rim. Cream glaze over all.
    Yellow glaze on exterior. Whtie slip on exterior rim and interior. Clear glaze on interior. Palmettes painted on wall in green and yellow slip. Horizontal stripe on rim in brown slip. Vertical stripes on lip in brown slip.
Material:   Modratley fine clay fired tan to gray at core in places, with scattered white inclusions.
    Pink clay fired tan with rare medium sub-rounded white inclusions and rare coarse angular platy voids.
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 7/4
    7.5YR 7/4 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., nearly complete body profile to rim, ca. 1/8 circumference.
    Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small part of wall, rim, lip.
Manufacture:   C79
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.055
Dimensions Restored:   D00.36 (rim)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine
Area:   Agora south central
    St. John's
Context:   NB159 B2 P221
    NB159 P221
    NB150 P103
Provenance:   Corinth ?
Bibliography:   Corinth XI N0590
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Morgan, Corinth 11, 1942
Monument: Agora south central
Monument: St. John's
Image: digital 2014 1447
Basket: NB150 P103
Basket: NB159 P221
Notebook Page: NB 150, spread 56 (pp. 103 - 104)
Notebook Page: NB 159, spread 24 (pp. 221 - 222)