| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FA 2011 1 | |
| Title: | ROMAN TERRACOTTA PALMETTE ANTEFIX | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FA | |
| Year: | 2011 | |
| Object Number: | 1 | |
| Description: | Terracotta antefix with three ridges below bead and reel moulding; upper ridges moulded as cyma reversa, center ridge as roundal, bottom ridge as taenia. Back surface thickened and moulded for collar insertion between tiles. Cf. FA 282, FA 293, FA 388, FA 524 for bead and reel and ridges. | |
| Decoration: | Ridges painted red, bead-and-reel white. | |
| Material: | Coares reddish yellow clay with abundant, large to very large tabular, sub-rounded red, black, and brown mudstone inclusions, and few, large to very large voids. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving right and left sides, back, front chipped; partially broken at bottom, missing palmette at top. White and red paint preserved on front face. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W. 0.18, L. 0.105 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.137 | |
| Period: | Roman | |
| Area: | Theater | |
| Context: | Theater, context 2102, LOT 2011 028 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Theater |
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