Corinth Object: C 2014 32a
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 2014 32a
Title:   PROTOMAIOLICA PLATE
Category Code:   C
Year:   2014
Object Number:   32
Object Suffix:   a
Related Objects:   C-2014-32B, C-2014-32C, C-2014-32D, C-2014-32E
Description:   Plate with flaring rim, convex body.
Decoration:   On interior: rim with blue chevron, three brown lines between rim and body, blue painted motifs on body outlined in black, including animal talons, and small yellow circles with central dot. Talons similar to C-1933-81 and unidentified fragment in photograph: digital_2009_2449.
Material:   Fine pale yellow clay with no visible inclusions and rare spherical and platy rounded voids.
Munsell Color:   2.5Y 8/2 (pale yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Three joining frgts., preserving small part of body and rim. Painting and glaze well preserved.
Manufacture:   WM
Weight Description:   0.048
Weight:   0.048
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   Late 13th-early 14th. Context middle 14th.
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Context:   Temple E, Southeast, context 485
    Temple E, Southeast, context 497
    Temple E, Southeast, context 497, LOT 2014 057
    LOT 2014 057
    LOT 2014 056
Provenance:   Southern Italy
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Temple E, Southeast
Image: digital 2014 5491
Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 485
Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 497