Corinth Object: FA 15
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