Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | A 849 | |
Title: | RELIEF WITH BOUKRANION | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | A | |
Object Number: | 849 | |
Old Number: | S-1980 (lapsed) | |
Description: | Relief with upper edge roughly picked. Decorated in relief with a stylized boukranion set 00.028 below upper edge; this band roughly worked. Boukranion consists of a stylized ruff of hair above forehead with curving horizontal incised liens for hairs, below which a row of beads. Head and muzzle flat with bulging eye, socket of eye hollowed out and roughly picked; muzzle tapers toward nose. | |
Material: | Fine-crystal white marble. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper edge, right 3/4 of head to base of right horn; missing tip of muzzle. Surface stained black. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.23 W00.156 | |
Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
Chronology: | Early Roman | |
Area: | Forum southeast | |
Context: | NB147 P35 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Forum southeast Basket: NB147 P35 |