| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1961 59 | |
| Title: | GLAZED CHAFING DISH WITH PLASTIC ZOOMORPHIC DECORATION | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1961 | |
| Object Number: | 59 | |
| Description: | Chafing dish with straight to convex walls and a rounded flaring lip with a small, high flange on the inside; a bowl-shaped section is set into the upper part of the interior | |
| Decoration: | Green to light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) glaze on exterior and interior; on exterior, just below the lip is a raised, molded animal (a deer?) whose head is depicted frontally and body in profile; it has large, pointed ears ending on the rim, and a long snout protruding outward from the vessel. Its eyes and nostrils, on top of the snout, are outlined and represented by small punctured holes; the mouth is marked by a large hole pierced through the pot; it is galloping to the left and has a small body, decorated also with small punctured holes in a ring around a faint incised circle and a central puncture; to the left and right, background details feature the same perforated decoration surrounded by vertical striations, and separated by short horizontal incisions. Compare to C-36-500 a,b, -503, -604, C-37-1811 (Corinth XI, p. 179 nos. 9-12, pl. 1), but see also see two covers, C-35-19 and C-34-559 (Corinth XI, p. 182, nos. 34 and 35, pl. 3), whose decoration more closely resembles this. | |
| Material: | Reddish yellow clay with frequent medium red, and large, angular, tabular to spherical gray and brown pebbles, and rare very large white inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Interior dish surface missing below rim, chipping of exterior glaze on the face and leg of the animal | |
| Manufacture: | C73 HW | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of wall 0.012, Th. of lip 0.013, Th. at thickest part of animal relief 0.030 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.083, W. 0.102 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.121 | |
| Weight: | 0.121 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 11th century A.D.; for a similar chafing dish rim profile, see C-63-565a (Corinth XX, p. 391, fig.23.3, no. 3) | |
| Area: | Forum | |
| Context: | NB229 B10 P117 | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth 20, 2003. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum Image: bw 1961 035 04 Image: bw 1962 086 15 Basket: NB229 B10 P117 Notebook Page: NB 229, spread 63 (pp. 116 - 117) |
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