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Description

A fragment of the base of a red-clay bowl on a low ring foot, from the group of glazed ceramics of the Byzantine circle. Decorated with a combination of engraving in the sgraffito technique under a monochrome light greenish-yellow glaze and the champlevé technique. The inside is decorated with wide bands in the form of four triangles radiating from the centre to form a cross. The sectors between the main arms are filled with incised triangles with net ornament. At the ends of the wide bands and beyond them are incised curls; in style they resemble the letters "X" and "P", which were often shown on ceramics as monograms. Unfortunately, the fragmentary state of the vessel makes it impossible to establish exactly which word these letters might have meant. The outlines of the cross are picked out in the reserve technique. The fragment is dated to the 14th century. Published by E. R. von Stern (Stern 1906, pl. VI: 56). Scientific description by Yaroslav Chentsov.