Corinth Object: C 1938 126
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 126
Title:   DARK-ON-LIGHT SLIP-PAINTED PLATE : WASTER
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   126
Description:   Plate with vertical ring foot, flat resting surface and undersurface, start of flaring body rising at 30 degrees. Hole pierced through foot for suspension.
Decoration:   White slip on floor, over which traces of two sets of concentric circles consisting of stripes alternating with rings of dots. No glaze, most of slip gone. "Imitation lustre" on original inventory book. Similar (?) to C-1935-346 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 632).
Material:   Moderately fine reddish-tan clay with few small rounded spherical white and red inclusions, and few small rounded spherical and angular platy voids.
Munsell Color:   5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving complete foot, most of floor, start of body.
Manufacture:   C79
Dimensions Actual:   D00.064 (foot)
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.023
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Late Byzantine coins to 1081-1118
Area:   Forum south central
Context:   NB175 B1 P45
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Forum south central
Image: digital 2014 1270
Basket: NB175 B1 P45
Notebook Page: NB 175, spread 29 (pp. 45 - 46)