| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1961 66 | |
| Title: | GLAZED CHAFING DISH WITH RELIEF DECORATION | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1961 | |
| Object Number: | 66 | |
| Description: | Brazier with stand, bowl in one piece, whole having continuous straight flaring profile. Parts of two narrow, vertical slits preserved in stand; thick beveled lip with inward projecting rim-flange for lid. Interior of bowl nearly hemispherical. Two vertical handles, round in section attached to stand (missing) and bowl near rim. | |
| Decoration: | Stand and bowl decorated in relief with musicians. Beginning at one handle, composed of figure with hands covering mouth; to rt., head and torso of figure with arms down; monstrous head with long flaring ears or horns, trumpet mouth with projecting tongue, long thin neck; drummer, head missing, holding hour-glass drum in front in both hands; missing figure. Handle ending in man's head; to rt., trumpet player, head to lt., trumpet resting on handle head; possible 2nd trumpeter to rt., head missing, trumpet resting on first head; missing element; figure in profile to lt. holding long "stick" beside head; figure with missing head. All figures wear headdress decorated with disks; disks for eyes; bodies decorated with impressed circles, lines; on background, shallow combed pattern in places. Yellow glaze over all but interior of stand, to pale green around rim. | |
| Material: | Moderately fine pale pinkish-buff clay with scattered voids, few white inclusions. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Seven joining frgts., top of stand, complete bowl, upper halves of two handles; missing parts of rim-flange, four faces, poss. 1 whole figure; numerous other chips. Glaze partly gone on bowl floor, with chip. | |
| Manufacture: | C83 | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.178 (rim) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.138 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late Byzantine? Context early 13th c. | |
| Area: | Forum southwest | |
| Context: | NB230 B9 P190, LOT 0835 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum southwest Images (15) Basket: NB230 B9 P190 Notebook Page: NB 230, spread 99 (pp. 189 - 190) |
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