Corinth Object: C 1937 793
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 793
Title:   MEASLES WARE PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   793
Description:   Plate with slightly flaring ring foot, rounded resting surface. Flaring convex body, round lip.
Decoration:   White slip on interior and overlapping lip. On floor, probable quatrefoil with onion-shaped petals with trefoil finial; triangular sprays to left and right; brown dots on lip. Clear glaze over slip.
Material:   Moderately coarse clay fired tan to pink at edges with dense amount of fine dark inclusions, few white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Ca. 5YR 7/5
Condition:   Fragment. Single frtg., preserving complete profile except for center of floor, ca. 1/4 circumference; surfaces flaked.
Manufacture:   C81
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.040
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. 0.06-0.07 (foot), Diam. 0.21 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB163 P56
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Image: digital 2014 1527
Basket: NB163 P56
Notebook Page: NB 163, spread 37 (pp. 56 - 57)