Corinth Object: C 1938 244
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1938 244
Title:   LIGHT-ON-DARK SLIP-PAINTED PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1938
Object Number:   244
Description:   Plate or bowl with wide flaring convex body.
Decoration:   Interior, 2 large circles (?) or pointed ovals; inside lt. circle scribbled outline, part of smaller circle and cross; rt. One has part of spiral filler; in field, circles with fringed interior outline, blobs. Clear glaze inside; thin white slip without glaze out. Similar to C-1938-284 (Morgan 1942, Corinth 11, cat. 763).
Material:   Moderately fine clay fired red out, gray in, with few small and medium subrounded tabular white inclusions, and few angular platy and tabular voids.
Munsell Color:   2.5YR 6/6 (light red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single body frgt.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.082 W00.80
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   Based on comparanda, and context (Late Byzantine to late 12th or early 13th c.?)
Area:   Agora south central
Context:   NB175 P68
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Agora south central
Image: digital 2014 1279
Basket: NB175 P68
Notebook Page: NB 175, spread 40 (pp. 67 - 68)