1960s: joined with shellac and partly filled with white plaster painted gray.
Conservation
2021: rejoined with Acryloid B-72 (Argiro Tsigri).
Description
Dish with low flaring walls and ring foot. On interior face flaring wall turns up from floor without very sharp turn often found on Hayes 4 dishes; there is subtle concave band on upper part of interior rim. Rim rises to A rounded lip. Exterior face is rounded above a subtle carination that separates from lower part. Ring foot is tooled on top of outer face to create rounded profile at lower edge; lower face is flat; inner face slopes steeply up and is separated from underside of floor by tooled groove; underside of floor is mainly flat with very slight droop. Single band of concentric rouletting on floor near center, at point where slight slope down from rim flattens out inside circumference of the ring foot.
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Fabric discolored to pink by marine submersion; slip completely abraded in large patches, thin and dull where extant.
Preservation comment
Two joining sherds preserve 50% of rim and nearly full profile but center of floor missing. Extensive, moderate to severe abrasion with pitting, flaking, and minor chipping. Gray marine encrustation present, especially on underside.
