Corinth Object: C 1938 120
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 120
Title:   LIGHT-ON-DARK SLIP-PAINTED PLATE: UNFINISHED
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   120
Description:   Deep bowl with echinoid body curving up broadly to broad inward- and outward-thickened rim, flat on top.
Decoration:   Painted decoration on interior in thick white slip: bars on top of rim, broad stripe below rim, below which: to rt., 2 boxed triangles, filled with floral spray; to lt. at least 3 spirals ending in sprays. No final glaze. Tested in 1979. See Request 1979-04-A1.
Material:   Fine brown clay with rare fine white inclusions, frequent fine voids.
Munsell Color:   10YR 5/3
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., upper part of body, rim, ca. 1/6 circumference.
Manufacture:   C80 WM
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.071 (max) H00.064 (true) W00.074
Dimensions Restored:   D00.027 (rim)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   1160-1200 (G. Sanders) Coins to Manuel I; pottery end 12th/early 13th + 1 15th c.?
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB175 P24
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   BSA 1983 pp. 235-263, Batch A.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Basket: NB175 P24
Notebook Page: NB 175, spread 18 (pp. 23 - 24)