Corinth Object: C 1937 795
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1937 795
Title:   YELLOW-GLAZED PLATE WITH GRAFFITO
Category Code:   C
Year:   1937
Object Number:   795
Description:   Plate with high flaring ring foot, narrow round resting surface, flat undersurface. Body rising at ca. 30 degrees with slight convex to concave profile to beveled lip, projecting slightly above interior.
Decoration:   White slip over all, thinly applied to exterior. Pale yellow glaze on interior and over lip, very thinly washed over remainder of plate.
Writing:   graffito. ? Either random scratches or graffito on undersurface, now damaged.
Material:   Moderately fine red clay with frequent voids, white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   Near 2.5YR 4/6
Condition:   Complete profile. 12 joining frgts., complete profile; complete foot, ca. 2/5 body to lip.
Manufacture:   C83
Dimensions Actual:   H00.064 D00.079 (foot) D00.22 (lip)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   ? 84? Late Byzantine to 13th c.
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB162 P147
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB162 P147