| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FA 2004 1 | |
| Title: | PALMETTE ANTEFIX LIGHT-ON-DARK STYLE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FA | |
| Year: | 2004 | |
| Object Number: | 1 | |
| Description: | Palmette antefix with back smooth and thickening to join with horizontal calypter. Sides scalloped to fit design on front face. Front face pyramidal in upper section, widens in lower section. | |
| Decoration: | Wide red-painted band outlines edge of antefix between front and back face, with red paint dripping down the back face; front face has both moulded and painted decoration in dark blue, red and white. Moulded 11-leaf palmette with thin convex drooping leaves painted white on a dark blue background; diamond shaped heart painted red, connected with a thin line to a smaller red-painted diamond between white painted S-shaped tendrils with the inner spirals terminating in red painted bosses. Filling ornament below the tendrils painted red. Subsidiary white-painted spirals going out and around along side edges. Painted decoration similar to FA 414, drooping leaves similar to FA 96. | |
| Material: | Coarse buff clay with common large to very large black and red mudstone spherical angular inclusions, spherical angular lime inclusions, and few small voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment from central part of antefix broken on all sides, preserving beginning of calypter on back, lower part of palmette and upper part of tendrils on front face. Paint well preserved. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of front face below calypter 0.024 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.113, W. 0.142 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Area: | Panaghia south | |
| Context: | NB962 B31 P70, LOT 2004 032 | |
| Findspot Description: | Eastern face of Wall 214 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia south Image: bw 2005 012 34a Basket: NB962 B31 P70 Notebook Page: NB 962, spread 40 (pp. 70 - 71) |
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