| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1968 343 | |
| Title: | MINIATURE THYMIATERION WITH DIPINTO | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1968 | |
| Object Number: | 343 | |
| Description: | Miniature thymiaterion with rectangular base (H. 0.03), handmade and attached to wheelmade circular upper portion. | |
| Decoration: | Slipped and polished outside with elaborate painted decorations; inside slipped and smoothed. Front face outlined crudely with black and very crude single dotted-fret pattern within, one red vertical stroke at extreme corner. Upper platform red, with black corner palmette outlined in red. Circular rising portion: torus in two degrees and rising panel to another offset in at least two degrees; outer edge of upper torus black and upper edge red. | |
| Writing: | dipinto. On panel above circular rising portion, in black paint, in Greek: DAMATR[---] (i.e., "to Demeter"). However, according to Ron Stroud, not Demeter. | |
| Material: | Hard, plae, yellowish-buff clay, shading toward pink at corel well levigated but few large inclusions. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving corner and base; broken at sides and top. Paint on front face faded and flaking. | |
| Area: | Babbius Monument | |
| Context: | NB406 B1 P87, LOT 5197 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Babbius Monument Image: digital 2017 1573 Image: digital 2017 1574 Image: digital 2017 1575 |
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