Object: P 4921
Inventory Number:   P 4921
Section Number:   Ξ 151
Title:   Plate with Sgraffito Decoration
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many pieces; nearly complete. The foot is broken at the bottom. Originally it probably stood on a high foot.
Coarse reddish clay covered with white slip and yellowish transparent glaze, which turns yellowish-brown in the sgraffito lines. Patches of green and yellow-green paint are applied under the glaze. The exterior and rim are solid green. In the pattern, the border seems to represent a large fish. Between his head and tail, the head of a bird appears to rise out of a plant.
Context:   Bothros well.
Negatives:   Leica, XXIII-41
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.17, (foot) 0.038; P.H. 0.047
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   6 March 1935
Section:   Ξ
Grid:   Ξ:71/ΞΣΤ
Deposit:   N 9:2
Lot:   Lot Ξ 52
Period:   Byzantine
Bibliography:   Hesperia 11 (1942), p. 7, fig. 7.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 11 (1942)
Image: 2012.51.0804 (XXIII-41)
Deposit: N 9:2
Card: P 4921