| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 13400 | |
| Title: | MOSAIC GLASS PLATE | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 13400 | |
| Description: | Plate or wide bowl. (Precise stancing of vessel is impossible because no base or rim preserved.) Extremely wide (<0.03) outturned rim with raised ridge. Sharp carination with raised edge at juncture between rim and body. Sloping convex body. | |
| Decoration: | Mosaic canes of central dot surrounded by a contrasting color, set in somewhat linear pattern about 30 degrees off the vertical plane of the plate. There also appear to be flecks (originally yellow?) in a circular pattern around most canes. Cane sections continue through the matrix, although are quite distorted esp. on exterior. | |
| Material: | Opaque red glass matrix inset with yellow, green, blue colors visible at modern fracture lines. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. 1 fragment. Body sherd with part of body and rim, but no preserved edge. Discolored to dark greys and milky whites | |
| Manufacture: | Mosaic cane | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.11, H. 0.056, Th. 0.005 | |
| Period: | 1 st c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | cf. Agora XXXIV pg 36-8 | |
| Area: | South Basilica | |
| Context: | NB146 P84 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Basilica Basket: NB146 P84 Notebook Page: NB 146, spread 46 (pp. 83 - 84) |
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