Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | FA 15 | |
Title: | ARCHAIC TERRACOTTA ANTEFIX | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | FA | |
Object Number: | 15 | |
Description: | Antefix originally attached to pentagonal cover tile, outline of which partly visible in back break. Antefix consist of a rectangular lower portion above which cut-out rectangular lower portion above which cut-out palmette. Face decorated in low relief with probable 7-petal palmette, lowest rt. petal preserved. Below this 2 tendrils rising from wither lower corner, curving into center where tied by cross-bar, with stud to either side; tendrils then curve up and out, making single loop inward at ht. of stud, and in circle of loop is a smallerstud. Below cross-bar is an upside-down palmette below a curved heart, petals straight and round. | |
Decoration: | Face painted in black and purpulish-brown: bottom palmette petal brown, tendrils black; flanking studs black, outer ones red. Lower palmette brown-black with central and end petals brown. Heart is black stripe above which brown. All surfaces slipped. | |
Material: | Coarse greenish-gray clay with dense amount of chiefly fine, few coarser (to 3mm) black mudstone inclusions, a few red. | |
Munsell Color: | 5Y 7/2 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving lower right quarter of antefix, preserving part of right edge, small part of back, broken remaining surfaces; only one petal of palmette extant. | |
Dimensions Actual: | Th. (above cover) 0.062 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.140; W. 0.166 | |
Dimensions Restored: | W. (at crossbar) 0.23 | |
Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
Area: | Early Excavations | |
Context: | Early Excavations, Provenance unknown | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | Corinth IV.1 p. 49; Van Buren, GFR p.148 (18) N114; Roebuck, Hesperia 1990 p.61; Cited Winter Archterr; Corinth 20, 2003. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Roebuck, Hesperia 59:1, 1990 Publication: Winter, Greek Architectural Terracottas: ... 1994 Monument: Early Excavations |