Corinth Object: C 1937 1386
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 1386
Title:   IMPRESSED CONSTANTINOPOLITAN WHITE WARE PEDESTAL PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   1386
Description:   Fruitstand with flaring ring foot, flat resting surface; tall stem with convex profile, sharp ridge articulating it from foot; wide flaring body.
Decoration:   Large relief eagle within circular border in tondo (as C-38-161, Corinth XI N0103). Large, radiating, curvilinear lines painted in iron oxide on wall inside. Pale olive green glaze inside and outside and thinly washed on inside and foot.
Material:   Medium hard with black, red and white inclusions. Smooth to slightly hackly, conchoidal break.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/1
Condition:   Fragment. Five joining frgts preserve about 7/8 of base and 1/5 of body.
Manufacture:   C68
Dimensions Actual:   D00.092 (stem)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.08
Dimensions Restored:   D00.10 (roughly, foot)
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   11th century (Guy Sanders)
Area:   South Stoa west
Context:   NB170 P120
Provenance:   Constantinople
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Stoa west
Basket: NB170 P120
Notebook Page: NB 170, spread 64 (pp. 119 - 120)