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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | FA 390 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA PALMETTE ANTEFIX | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | FA | | Object Number: | | 390 | | Description: | | Antefix, originally with 11-petal palmette over mushroom heart, designed to fit over lateral sima. Plain band along bottom with plastic rib above. Above this two antithetic spirals curl out from acanthus leaf, turn in ca. horizontally, then curl out, biforcating under striated acanthus leaf. Cf. FA-48 for type. | | Decoration: | | Dull purplish paint over face between 10R 5/4 and 10Y 5/6. | | Material: | | Moderately coarse orange clay with scattered black, white inclusions and voids. | | Munsell Color: | | Ca. 5YR 6/6 | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., lower half of antefix plaque; broken through upper half tendril. Neck broken in back. | | Dimensions Actual: | | W00.195 | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.131 | | Period: | | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | | Area: | | Asklepieion | | Context: | | Asklepieion, Exact provenance unknown | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Site: | | Asklepeion | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Asklepieion
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Basket: Asklepieion, Exact provenance unknown
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