| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1962 818 | |
| Title: | IONIC CAPITAL | |
| LIKNON OFFERING TRAYS | ||
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1962 | |
| Object Number: | 818 | |
| Description: | Ionic capital. | |
| Small, low liknon full of small imitation cakes and fruit. Traces of a thin layer of clay under the surface belonging to some kid of attachment .Imside different kind of cakes and grains. Possible traces of black paint on the clay balls. Two cakes, one wide and flat and the other smaller and taller, with five knobs on edges and center connected by strips of clay. Third cake on sloped opening with six lines incised across surface and four knobs congregated towards center and upper left. Fourth cake wide and flat with one central knob. Three large large balls and two small representing fruit. Traces of black paint on two larger and one smaller ball. Originally attached to larger dish. | ||
| Material: | Very pale brown clay with rare medium tan inclusions | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/2 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact with broken attachment to larger vessel. | |
| Manufacture: | HW | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Diam. 0.423, H. 0.164 | |
| L. 0.042 | ||
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | Based on Hesperia 1997 and context | |
| Area: | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | |
| Context: | NB250 B1 P57, LOT 1991 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | A-4 was found in Peirene. | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 1997, p. 161, no. 28 | |
| Hesperia 1997, p.161, no. 28 | ||
| Site: | Corinth | |
| Acrocorinth | ||
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore |