Corinth Object: C 1948 53
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1948 53
Title:   WEST SLOPE PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1948
Object Number:   53
Description:   Plate with offset rim.
Decoration:   Fully glazed except for wheel-grooving encircling medallion and inner and outer edges of rim. Medallion: multipetalled flower with schematic outlines, petals in yellow with vertical and horiztonal shading in yellow, white, and dilute black. Outer floor with four filleted boukrania rendered and shaded in same colors. Rim with alternation of three units of incised diminishing rectangles, each with super-imposed incised X from corner to corner, and unit of incised checkerboard; no trace of color in design.
Material:   Fine clay fired pink at core, tan at surface.
Condition:   Complete profile. Complete profile, preserving 5 joining frgts.; missing about 2/3 rim. RIP.
Dimensions Actual:   H. 0.022, Diam. 0.168 (rim), Diam, 0.062 (foot)
Period:   3rd c. B.C.
Chronology:   225-200 BC; 4th quarter 3rd c. B.C., according to Corinth 7.3
Area:   South Stoa
Context:   NB200 B32 P251
    NB200 B33 P251
Bibliography:   Edwards 1975, Corinth 7.3, cat. 129; Hesperia 1949, Vol. 18, pl. 16, 14; cited Pemberton 1989, Corinth 18.1, cat. 164, p. 50
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: South Stoa
Images (5)
Basket: NB200 B32 P251
Basket: NB200 B33 P251