| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FA 2005 1 | |
| Title: | ROMAN TERRACOTTA PALMETTE ANTEFIX | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FA | |
| Year: | 2005 | |
| Object Number: | 1 | |
| Description: | Antefix attached to semi-circular cover tile. Face decorated in relief with 11-petal palmette, edges cut to mirror petals, which are straight with central one taller than rest, the top of which is divided into three parts meeting in a point. Petals radiate from oval heart on a stem flanked by spirals. At the edges a small spiral on a stem curves inward. Across bottom, two horizontal ridges, from which rise the stems of the spirals and the heart. Similar to Gebhard, The Theater at Isthmia, 1973, p. 108, fig. 54, and example in NB941 B62. | |
| Decoration: | Traces of brown slip preserved. | |
| Material: | Coarse reddish yellow clay with few medium to very large rounded and sub-rounded white lime and few angular mudstone and grog inclusions, and frequent medium to very large voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 8/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 5YR 7/8 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single fragment preserving complete antefix, and small part of cover tile. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.21, W. 0.153, Th. 0.026 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.197 | |
| Period: | 2nd c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | Second half of the 2nd c. A. C., based on Isthmia parallels (Gebhard, The Theater at Isthmia, 1973, pp. 89, 143). | |
| Area: | Panaghia west | |
| Context: | NB971 B59 P125, LOT 2005 014 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia west Image: bw 2006 007 04 Basket: NB971 B59 P125 |
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