| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FA 2011 2 | |
| Title: | ROMAN TERRACOTTA PALMETTE ANTEFIX | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FA | |
| Year: | 2011 | |
| Object Number: | 2 | |
| 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. Across bottom, two horizontal ridges, from which rise the stems of the spirals and the heart. Similar to FA 2005 1. Cf. Gebhard, The Theater at Isthmia, 1973, p. 108, fig. 54, and example in NB941 B62. | |
| 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 7/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single fragment preserving almost complete antefix, except for small part of lower left-hand corner, and small part of cover tile. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.215, Th. of antefix at bottom 0.004 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | W. 0.14, L. 0.007 | |
| 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: | Theater | |
| Context: | Theater, context 4045, LOT 2011 077 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Theater |
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