Corinth Object: C 1938 150a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 150a
Title:   CONSTANTINOPOLITAN WHITE WARE PLATE: RIM
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   150
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C-1938-150B
Description:   Flaring ring foot, convex inside. Widely flaring convex wall curving sharply up to wide, flaring convex. Outwardly thickened rim with rounded lip.
Decoration:   Large relief of winged creature in circular border in middle inside with smaller reliefs on walls. Three-tined, combed arrows on rim. Thick, glossy yellow glaze, with broad strokes of brown glaze, inside to lip.
Material:   Medium hard clay with white, red and gray inclusions. Smooth to slightly hackly break (Sanders PhD: Fabric 3)
Munsell Color:   Core: 5 YR 8/1 (white); fired outer edge: 5 YR 8/4 (pink)
Condition:   Complete profile. Eight frgts., preserving complete profile including 1/5 of rim.
Manufacture:   C 68
Weight Description:   0.299
Weight:   0.299
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   late 11th c., according to Guy Sanders
Area:   Agora south central
Context:   NB175 B2 P48
Findspot Description:   Agora South Corner NB 175 p. 48.
Bibliography:   Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 90
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora south central
Image: digital 2014 2933