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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | FA 391 | | Title: | | TERRACOTTA PALMETTE ANTEFIX | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | FA | | Object Number: | | 391 | | Description: | | Palmette antefix attached to semi-circular cover tiles. Antefix face decorated with antithetic tendrils, rising from corners of plaque, from acanthus leaf, turning in nearly horizontally, then curving out; at ends, two small spirals drop from acanthus leaf on either side; Below, 5-petal palmette, pendant from two leaves. Above, mushroom shaped heart with lowest petal of palmette to either side. For type, cf. FA-48, FA-390 but with added band at bottom. Fine slip on surface. | | Material: | | Coarse buff clay fired light pink at core, with numerous mudstone inclusions, red and gray - several to 7-12mm. | | Munsell Color: | | Close to 7.5YR 7/4 | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving lower half plaque, broken in back; broken at top of heart. | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.113 W00.191 | | 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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