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Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | FA 49 | Title: | | TERRACOTTA PALMETTE ANTEFIX | Category: | | Architecture | Category Code: | | FA | Object Number: | | 49 | Description: | | Palmette antefix with horizontal plain band at bottom, plastic rib above, 2 antithetic tendrils rise from corners, curling in and out under heart; of these missing part of lower left and rt. tendrils; Beneath juncture of tendrils is a pendant 5-petal palmette with two leaves above, central petal round-tipped, side petals long. Above, mushroom-shaped heart. At back, thickened neck. For type cf. FA-XXXX-48. | Material: | | Moderately coarse clay with scattered white, red inclusions, fired pink at core, buff surfaces. | Munsell Color: | | Between 10YR 8/4 and 2.5Y 8/3 surface, redder than ;;;5YR 6/6 core | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving lower half of antefix plaque; broken above at heart, to left and right. | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.151 | Period: | | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | Context: | | , Provenance unknown | Provenance: | | Corinth | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Basket: , Provenance unknown
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